Subject: Re: Insecure dependency in eval
To: Martti Kuparinen <martti.kuparinen@iki.fi>
From: Roland Illig <rillig@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/22/2005 11:40:56
Roland Illig wrote:
> Martti Kuparinen wrote:
> 
>> Any ideas what this is?
>>
>>
>> Unusual System Events
>> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>> Nov 22 04:26:36 p130 spamd[23228]: spamd: Insecure dependency in eval 
>> while running setuid at 
>> /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/Conf/Parser.pm 
>> line 913.
> 
> 
> The code there looks quite ugly, but _seems_ secure to me (I'll continue 
> trying). It tries to distinguish a "safe" regular expression from a 
> non-safe, while not adhering to the coding guidelines for Perl's tainted 
> mode at all.
> 
> You should report this as an upstream bug.

I have just committed a fix (it's patch-ar) and bumped the PKGREVISION. 
Please update.

Roland