RE: AW: securing php

["Rainer Gerhards" <rgerhards () hq adiscon com>]

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 () deneb enyo de] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 11:07 AM
> To: vogt () hansenet com
> Cc: zorkshin () tampabay rr com; full-disclosure () lists netsys com
> Subject: Re: AW: [Full-disclosure] securing php
>
>
> vogt () hansenet 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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