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regarding perl: script permissions should be ignored
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Package: clanlib
Version: 0.6.5-1-1
Severity: serious
>From my build log:
...
Compiling Sources/Core/IOData/Unix/directory_scanner_unix.cpp
Sources/Core/IOData/Unix/directory_scanner_unix.cpp: In member function `
virtual bool CL_DirectoryScanner_Unix::next()':
Sources/Core/IOData/Unix/directory_scanner_unix.cpp:99: error: `assert'
undeclared (first use this function)
Sources/Core/IOData/Unix/directory_scanner_unix.cpp:99: error: (Each undeclared
identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in.)
make[1]: *** [Libs/Intermediate/directory_scanner_unix.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/tmp/buildd/clanlib-0.6.5-1/build-tree/ClanLib-0.6.5'
make: *** [debian/stampdir/build] Error 2
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux frobnitz 2.4.21-pre5 #1 Sat Mar 1 09:01:10 PST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
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Version: 5.12.0-1
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 09:23:00PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 09:27:59AM +0200, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 02:58:44PM +0200, Sebastian Muszynski wrote:
> > >
> > > $ chmod g+s test.pl
> > > $ perl test.pl
> > > No #! line at test.pl line 1.
> > > $
> >
> > Hmm, that is IMNSHO a bug or serious misfeature of perl if it behaves that
> > way. What is being run here is the perl binary, not the script; the script
> > is merely input data for the perl binary. It's permissions should be ignored
> > aside from the fact that it has to be readable and perl should not behave
> > differently simply because the datafile that it processes has the set GID
> > bit
> > set.
>
> This is a feature, not a bug.
>
> >From perlsec(1):
>
> Perl can emulate the setuid and setgid mechanism when it notices
> the otherwise useless setuid/gid bits on Perl scripts. It does
> this via a special executable called suidperl that is automatically
> invoked for you if it’s needed.
>
> >From perldiag(1):
>
> No #! line
> (F) The setuid emulator requires that scripts have a
> well-formed #! line even on machines that don’t support
> the #! construct.
>
> Lowering the severity to 'wishlist'; it's possible that the setuid
> emulator will be removed at some point as it was expected to go away
> for 5.10 but didn't. From perl587delta(1):
>
> For new projects the core perl team strongly recommends that
> you use dedicated, single purpose security tools such as "sudo"
> in preference to "suidperl".
It went away in 5.12 (and I've confirmed the above test case now works)
so closing report accordingly.
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