full-disclosure - AW: securing php

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From: fw at deneb.enyo.de (Florian Weimer)
Subject: AW: securing php

vogt@...senet.com writes:

> You an enable PHP's "Safe Mode", which goes a long way to
> closing these holes, but it's not a 100% solution.

PHP uses many libraries which were not designed to cope with malicious
input from the application.  That's why PHP Safe Mode is unsafe *by*
*design*.