note 110473 added to function.curl-setopt
| From: | m at mar dot lt | Date: | Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:06:55 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 110473 added to function.curl-setopt | ||
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Be careful when changing CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST or other options to true (boolean). It may cause
insecure behavior [1]
This is because boolean true casts into integer 1, and CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST = 1 is not secure
behavior.
[1] Martin Georgiev and Subodh Iyengar and Suman Jana and Rishita Anubhai and Dan Boneh and Vitaly
Shmatikov, The most dangerous code in the world: validating SSL certificates in non-browser
software, ACM CCS '12, pp. 38-49, 2012
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Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php
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