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+Built from 2.1.17 source, works fine on commandline, but not working from CGI wrapper.  Traced problem to regular expressions failing to match, specifically in contexts like the following in Render.pm:
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+    my ($f)=/$config{wiki_file_regexp}/; # untaint
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+It works if I replace it with:
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+    my ($f)=/(^[-[:alnum:]_.:\/+]+$)/; # untaint
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+which is exactly the same regular expression drawn out as a constant.  It appears that %config gets some tainted data and is itself being marked entirely tainted, which may prevent using regular expressions contained in it for untainting other data.  I'm using Perl 5.8.8.