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Wrong decryption of initial 16 bytes by Perl Crypt:Rijndael module [closed]

I am using a Perl module (Crypt::Rijndael) to decrypt some application data. I gave the encrypted data, encryption key and client IV as the input. Out of 432 bytes of application data, the first 16 ...
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Identifying strange Perl CGI script

Recently, while looking at some Perl CGI files, I came across this. I am not familiar enough with Perl to know exactly what it means, but I did attempt to base64 decode the string to no effect. Can ...
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Perl CPAN modules in a PCI-DSS environment

We are currently working on implementing the PCI-DSS ruleset in our IT environment, where all of the inhouse software we use is Perl. We have a Perl dev team of about 10 people (inlcuding me) and ...
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Web Application - Cookie Expiry

We are using a web application on cloud. I need a small clarification. We are using Perl with Apache. I see a following issue here for the below scenario. I need some inputs of whether this is most ...
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Tools for analyzing Perl 5 code?

I'm looking for good tools for analyzing and/or detecting security issues in a large software project written in Perl 5. It could be static or dynamic analysis. I know that Perl is undecidable, but ...
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How can I avoid putting the database password in a perl script?

I have a cronned perl script that connects to our database and does various kinds of lookups and integrity checks. The original script was written by someone long ago. My job is to make some changes ...
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Need help decoding suspicious Perl .cgi files

I found three (identical) .cgi files in the "cgi-bin" directory of a hacked website account. My knowledge of Perl is insufficient to decode them. I see some regexp with code execution, but I don't see ...
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Can /etc/passwd file be accessed on a cpanel shared hosting account?

Given standard server hardening was performed, can the /etc/passwd be accessed by a shared hosting account by using PHP or Perl scripts which is executed from the public_html of the shared account?
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Disable Perl for some/most Linux users?

One of my server's web accounts got hacked a couple of times. Each time someone downloaded a Perl script via some phpBB forum and used the Perl script to do whatever they wanted to do (mostly connect ...
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Unauthorised Perl Scripts [closed]

One of my servers just had the memory exhausted by a load of Perl scripts, we use plesk and they seem to have appeared under the /var/www/vhosts/domainexample.com/cgi-bin/ directory, I managed to stop ...