full-disclosure - AW: securing php

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Message-ID: <28915501A44DBA4587FE1019D675F983093A86@grfint.intern.adiscon.com>
From: rgerhards at hq.adiscon.com (Rainer Gerhards)
Subject: AW: securing php

But it is still another hurdle ;) Remeber, security is the art of moving
as many hurdles in the way as possible. Hopefully the attacker is
exhausted before he reaches the last one. And, yes, I agree it is good
to be always reminded that some of the hurdles are small ;)

Rainer

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Florian Weimer [mailto:fw@...eb.enyo.de] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 11:07 AM
> To: vogt@...senet.com
> Cc: zorkshin@...pabay.rr.com; full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
> Subject: Re: AW: [Full-Disclosure] 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*.
> 
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