perl: improper input validation

Stephane Chazelas discovered a bug in the environment handling in Perl. Perl provides a Perl-space hash variable, %ENV, in which environment variables can be looked up. If a variable appears twice in envp, only the last value would appear in %ENV, but getenv would return the first. Perl's taint...

Updated perl packages fix CVE-2016-2381

Updated perl packages fix security vulnerability: Stephane Chazelas discovered a bug in the environment handling in Perl. Perl provides a Perl-space hash variable, %ENV, in which environment variables can be looked up. If a variable appears twice in envp, only the last value would appear in %ENV,...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: python security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Updated python packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which gi...

Simple Ruby Exec with Open and Pipe

I was researching something else and thought this was a cool way to execute a command through the open method in ruby: 1 | open"|CMD" ---|--- The key is starting the open with pipe. For example, 1 | open"|ls" ---|--- Or to exec and print the result in one line: 1 | open"|ls".each |out| puts out...