Information about the package, perl-Test-Taint, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The perl-Test-Taint package is designed for, Tools to test taintedness.
Package Name:
perl-Test-Taint
Summary:
Tools to test taintedness
Description:
Tainted data is data that comes from an unsafe source, such as the command line, or, in the case of web apps, any GET or POST transactions. Read the perlsec man page for details on why tainted data is bad, and how to untaint the data. When you're writing unit tests for code that deals with tainted data, you'll want to have a way to provide tainted data for your routines to handle, and easy ways to check and report on the taintedness of your data, in standard Test::More style.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.04
Release:
9.el6
Size:
16 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPL+ or Artistic
Control the perl-Test-Taint package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install perl-Test-Taint
This command will install perl-Test-Taint on the server.
yum remove perl-Test-Taint
This command will un-install perl-Test-Taint on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-Test-Taint, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove perl-Test-Taint
This command will un-install perl-Test-Taint on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove perl-Test-Taint when using the -y flag.
yum update perl-Test-Taint
This command will update perl-Test-Taint to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-Test-Taint, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update perl-Test-Taint
This command will update perl-Test-Taint to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove perl-Test-Taint when using the -y flag.
yum info perl-Test-Taint
This command will show you core information about the perl-Test-Taint package.
yum deplist perl-Test-Taint
This command will show you the dependencies for perl-Test-Taint. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update perl-Test-Taint
This command will check if there is an update waiting on perl-Test-Taint. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.