[Dailydave] Bouncing with PHP

Jeremy Kelley jeremy at austin.ibm.com
Tue May 20 18:48:40 EDT 2008


Suhosin helps immensely by the simple fact that it disables remote file
inclusions.  That one feature alone would have stopped about 90% (made
up statistic, don't know...) of the php app attacks from the last couple
of years and before declare_globals was defaulted off.

-j

Quoting John Dangler (jdangler at terremark.com):
> How does Suhosin affect the odds in a PHP5 web application?

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Jeremy Kelley <jeremy at austin.ibm.com>               Sr. Threat Analyst
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