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    Abandon the use of Perl's Safe.pm to enforce restrictions in plperl, as it is · 1f474d29
    Andrew Dunstan authored
    fundamentally insecure. Instead apply an opmask to the whole interpreter that
    imposes restrictions on unsafe operations. These restrictions are much harder
    to subvert than is Safe.pm, since there is no container to be broken out of.
    Backported to release 7.4.
    
    In releases 7.4, 8.0 and 8.1 this also includes the necessary backporting of
    the two interpreters model for plperl and plperlu adopted in release 8.2.
    
    In versions 8.0 and up, the use of Perl's POSIX module to undo its locale
    mangling on Windows has become insecure with these changes, so it is
    replaced by our own routine, which is also faster.
    
    Nice side effects of the changes include that it is now possible to use perl's
    "strict" pragma in a natural way in plperl, and that perl's $a and
    $b variables now work as expected in sort routines, and that function
    compilation is significantly faster.
    
    Tim Bunce and Andrew Dunstan, with reviews from Alex Hunsaker and
    Alexey Klyukin.
    
    Security: CVE-2010-1169
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