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Re: How many bugs can *you* find

by tinman (Curate)
on May 01, 2001 at 01:30 UTC ( [id://76763]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to How many bugs can *you* find

Ovid, thank you for doing something like this.. I wanted to, but I suppose I never had the courage to actually try it out.. Its going to help my awareness of any bad coding practices immensely..

Ok, first thing: you're not checking the return results of *any* file open call... not for reading and not for writing.. there should always be a "or die" handler for all the open calls

Umm.. a biggie, but I don't think you're untainting any of the file name variables or the param variables that you recieve from the user... so a script kiddie style "rm -rf" hack is possible..

When you open a file for writing, you don't bother to lock (flock)it.. I've personally been bitten by a lot of flock issues when I do CGI, so I noticed this..

Your comparison (eq 'Link' || 'Pile') doesn't take into consideration a lower case submission ('link', 'pile' etc)
Update:Whoops, not so sure about this

Well, that's all I can see for now... please do tell if I've concentrated on the smaller nitpicky issues and missed any big ones...

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