On 08.04.2015 03:30 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> I'm thinking that x2go's server scripts should use perl's "-T" taint
> mode to prevent searching user's paths and otherwise improve security.
> Thoughts?

Good idea! I'm in favor of this and will dig into that when having spare
time.

However, there's more to that than just enabling taint mode, by a quick
glimpse at http://perldoc.perl.org/perlsec.html#Taint-mode

That is, we actually have to make sure that the scripts still *work in
taint mode* prior to just blindly enabling it.


We're also using at least one setuid script, which deserves special care
to make sure it continues to work.



Mihai

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