X2Go Bug report logs - #1133
Inconsistent Perl used by server or its agent on connect

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Package: x2goserver; Maintainer for x2goserver is X2Go Developers <x2go-dev@lists.x2go.org>; Source for x2goserver is src:x2goserver.

Reported by: Ted Toal <twtoal@ucdavis.edu>

Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 21:20:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: not-a-bug

Found in version 4.0.1.20

Done: Stefan Baur <X2Go-ML-1@baur-itcs.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Control: reassign -1 x2goserver 4.0.1.20

On 11.01.2017 02:48 AM, Ted Toal wrote:
> perl has the -l option for specifying the PERL5LIB path.  That option can, and I think should, be used on the shebang of the x2go perl scripts:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl -l /usr/lib/perl5
> 
> or something like that.  I know the shebang line allows args.

If you explicitly break your setup by defining random variables in shell startup
scripts, you'll have to handle the outcome.

Following the same line of original reasoning, users COULD potentially replace
/usr/bin/perl with /bin/false. It's unreasonable to expect stuff to check
whether /usr/bin/perl actually is a Perl interpreter.


In your case, the proper workaround would be to change the perl hashbangs to
"#!/usr/bin/env perl" instead, so that the first matching perl binary in $PATH
is used. I won't change that in x2goserver, though, as we have literally no idea
what users do to their PATH variable (and shouldn't assume.) Note, that this may
still not work, as I vaguely remember at least X2Go Client to export a sane PATH
value before executing any command remotely, though.

If anything, we could explicitly unset PERL5LIB in the client application for
additional sanitation. Would that make sense?



Mihai


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