[MLUG] CGI security question

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Suppose that I have a perl CGI script.  I want to do a search using
regular expressions.  So I do something like

Use CGI;

$search = param("search");

.....

  /$search/

.....

Is this likely to be a security problem?


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Stephen Montgomery-Smith
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