Re: ISO guidelines/strategies to guard injection attacks

On 1/19/2010 3:39 PM, Andy Colson wrote:
> On 1/19/2010 3:23 PM, Kynn Jones wrote:
>> I have a Perl CGI script (using DBD::Pg) that interfaces with a
>> server-side Pg database. I'm looking for general
>> guidelines/tools/strategies that will help me guard against SQL
>> injection attacks.
>>
>> Any pointers/suggestions would be much appreciated.
>>
>> ~K
>>
>
> prepare your queries:
>
> my $q = $db->prepare('select something from table where key = $1');
> $q->execute(42);
>
> and..
> $db->do('update table set field = $1 where key = $2', undef, 'key', 42);
>
> (*guessed at the do(). I think there is an undef in there, or something*)
>
> -Andy
>

Also, add to that, in general, use Taint Mode. Perl wont trust data
until its been sanitized... and neither should you.

I have a little helper function:

sub untaint
{
$_[0] =~ /(\w+)/;
return $1;
};

Then later on:

my $xpin = untaint($web->param('pin'));

This makes sure the pin param only contains word characters (so no
dashes, slashes, quotes, or any other crap).

-Andy