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List:       apache-modperl
Subject:    Re: Insecure $ENV{PATH} while running with -T at Mail/Mailer/sendmail.pm
From:       Stas Bekman <stas () stason ! org>
Date:       2004-04-30 18:39:18
Message-ID: 40929D56.7070607 () stason ! org
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Alexander.Farber@nokia.com wrote:
[...]
> I've workarounded my problem by moving the line 
> 
>         $ENV{PATH} = '/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/lib';
> 
> from the BEGIN block into the handler sub, right before I call
> 
>         my $sendmail = Mail::Mailer->new();
>         $sendmail->open(....);
> 
> So it looks to me, that it's a problem of mod_perl 
> or maybe of the Apache::StatINC

Not mod_perl's problem, but some piece of code that messes with $ENV{PATH}. 
All mod_perl is doing is setting -T. You didn't answer this question:

"could it be that Mail::Mailer redefines $ENV{PATH} in its code? check what's 
the value that you get before you call the code that fails."

The fact that setting it in the handler solves the problem, suggests that 
either the BEGIN block is not being run (add a warn "BEGIN is running" to 
test) or something resets that env var.


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