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Re: Mambo, Coppermine and PHPBB Attacks


From: Paul Laudanski <zx () castlecops com>
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 19:29:37 -0500 (EST)

On Mon, 26 Dec 2005, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote:

But I don't insist nx bit support is useless.

I'm not sure I follow this one?  Are you meaning:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_bit

Anyway, most php script do not need remote script execution feature.
And even with SELinux, it cannot prevent to execute remote code while
access to local file could be rejected and reported.

Making allow_url_fopen useless is bad thing.

Can you expand on this one please, or are you throwing it back to your 
original reply?

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