Re: Dismantling the lies...
| From: | Stefan Esser | Date: | Mon, 21 May 2007 07:07:55 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Dismantling the lies... | ||
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Stanislav Malyshev schrieb:
>> I am fully aware that it can be made faster. But a slow solution is
>> better than no solution at all.
>
> Actually in many situations it isn't. Since as far as I can see the
> problem can lead to real harm only in rather limited set of
> situations, making the engine always considerably slower just to fix
> it does not seem a very good solution to me.
Well yes. I think to solve this "once and for all" a public statement by
the PHP group would be nice that says:
We think that local vulnerabilities that allow people who managed to
execute PHP code on the server
through a PHP script vulnerability or those on shared hosting to launch
further attacks, like stealing data
from apache memory or takeover the webserver socket (when mod_php is
used) or to launch direct
kernel exploits (which would not be possible if PHP would be secure), or
a bunch of other attacks that
are not possible from PHP code, are not important. We therefore won't
fix them.
This statement would be honest and would be a good warning sign for
people to choose another language.
Stefan Esser