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Message-Id: <20070102144527.0898676d.kevin@oceania.net>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 14:45:27 +1100
From: Kevin Waterson <kevin@...ania.net>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: PHP as a secure language? PHP worms? [was: Re: new linux
malware]
This one time, at band camp, Chad Maron <chad@...ianworks.net> wrote:
> As far as I'm concerned, PHP is one of the better languages out there it's just that lazy and incompetent pseudo-developers get their hands on tutorial code and copy-paste it into oblivion.
agreed, however PHP core Developers will often overlook the PHP communities
cries for security tools to implement secure practises.
The filter extension goes a long way to addressing this, but still we see issues
such as deprecated extensions like the Mimetype Functions that leave a gaping hole
in validation of file types without installing extra's from PECL (FileInfo) which is
not always available to the person, particularly in a shared hosting environment.
--
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
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