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Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:50:17 +0200
From: Hanno Böck <hanno@...eck.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request phpmyadmin (Fwd: XSS in phpMyadmin)
Am Dienstag 28 Oktober 2008 schrieb Thijs Kinkhorst:
> Do we still call things that require register_globals to be on a
> 'vulnerability'?
>
> Register_globals has been advertised (including in the PHP documentation
> of that option) as a very bad idea for many years now, it's turned off by
> default since years aswell. Turning it on could be considered as knowingly
> taking the risk on a certain class of exploits.
>
> At least Debian doesn't provide any security support for these issues.
I'd think this is okay as a policy for a distribution and agree that it's a
very bad idea to enable register_globals these days (afaik it should go away
in php6 anyway). But anyway a register_globals issue most likely leads to at
least some bad programming practise (using uninitalized variables), I think
it's okay to still track them.
And beside, would be worth a check but I am pretty sure there are still lot's
of webhosters out there having it enabled.
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