From: Jeremy Harris <jgh146exb@wizmail.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 22:16:50 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: More taint notes
X-Git-Tag: exim-4.95-RC0~191
X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/exim.git/commitdiff_plain/46e872abb44a2589488ec47febaf376c89688c1c

More taint notes
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diff --git a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
index 2dd6e44be..d62ceafd7 100644
--- a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
+++ b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
@@ -10147,7 +10147,7 @@ newline at the very end. For the &%header%& and &%bheader%& expansion, for
 those headers that contain lists of addresses, a comma is also inserted at the
 junctions between headers. This does not happen for the &%rheader%& expansion.
 
-.cindex "tainted data"
+.cindex "tainted data" "message headers"
 When the headers are from an incoming message,
 the result of expanding any of these variables is tainted.
 
@@ -14093,6 +14093,10 @@ taint mode of the Perl interpreter. You are encouraged to set this
 option to a true value. To avoid breaking existing installations, it
 defaults to false.
 
+.new
+&*Note*&: This is entirely separate from Exim's tainted-data tracking.
+.wen
+
 
 .section "Calling Perl subroutines" "SECID86"
 When the configuration file includes a &%perl_startup%& option you can make use