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Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

From Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?
Date 2023-04-04 21:00 +0200
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On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 1:37 PM Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 06:29:50PM +0100, debian-user@howorth.org.uk wrote:
> > But cropping and ignoring the actual point of Stefan's mail rather
> > misses the point and insults him. For example, three CVEs chosen at
> > random from the 'vim' list:
> >
> > CVE-2010-3481         Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in
> > login.php in ApPHP PHP MicroCMS 1.0.1, when magic_quotes_gpc is
> > disabled, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via
> > the (1) user_name and (2) password variables, possibly related to
> > include/classes/Login.php. NOTE: some of these details are obtained
> > from third party information. NOTE: the password vector might not be
> > vulnerable.
> >
> > CVE-2010-2704         Buffer overflow in HP OpenView
> > Network Node Manager (OV NNM) 7.51 and 7.53 allows remote attackers to
> > execute arbitrary code via a long HTTP request to nnmrptconfig.exe.
> >
> > CVE-2010-2703         Stack-based buffer overflow in the execvp_nc
> > function in the ov.dll module in HP OpenView Network Node Manager (OV
> > NNM) 7.51 and 7.53, when running on Windows, allows remote attackers to
> > execute arbitrary code via a long HTTP request to webappmon.exe.
> >
> > FWIW, the word SQL appears 127 times in the 'vim' CVEs, and the word
> > 'vim' doesn't appear in most so I'm not sure how helpful these numbers
> > actually are.
>
> The word "via" appears in all three of your selections.  That makes me
> think that the web site is using some kind of a "close-enough match"
> heuristic, and is (unhelpfully) matching "via" as close enough to "vim".

Oh, that would not be good.

The Vim folks had a bad week this week:
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5995-1 . There were 30 CVEs
fixed this week.

Jeff

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Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin? coreyh@free.fr - 2023-04-02 11:00 +0200
  Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-04-02 11:10 +0200
  Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin? Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> - 2023-04-02 11:30 +0200
    Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin? Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2023-04-02 11:50 +0200
    Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin? Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> - 2023-04-03 00:20 +0200
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  Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin? Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2023-04-02 18:40 +0200
    Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-04-02 18:40 +0200
      Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin? Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> - 2023-04-02 19:20 +0200
        Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-04-02 20:50 +0200
          Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin? Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> - 2023-04-02 21:00 +0200
            Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin? Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> - 2023-04-02 21:20 +0200
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                Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-04-03 06:50 +0200
                Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-04-03 06:50 +0200
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    Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin? Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> - 2023-04-02 23:40 +0200
      Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-04-03 05:50 +0200
        Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin? Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> - 2023-04-03 20:00 +0200
          Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin? Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> - 2023-04-03 20:20 +0200
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          Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin? Michel Verdier <mv524@free.fr> - 2023-04-03 20:20 +0200
          Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-04-03 20:50 +0200
            Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin? Michel Verdier <mv524@free.fr> - 2023-04-03 21:00 +0200
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                Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin? Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> - 2023-04-08 15:40 +0200
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                Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-04-03 22:30 +0200
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                Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin? Michael <ml@hemathor.de> - 2023-04-05 12:00 +0200
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        Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin? Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> - 2023-04-03 19:50 +0200
    Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin? debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2023-04-03 19:20 +0200
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