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Re: [Full-Disclosure] Re: New Santy-Worm attacks *all* PHP-skripts

Paul Laudanski wrote:

For this particular strain it would certainly help, but that is why there exists new variations.

Of course - it's no solution.

Certainly doing it to /tmp, /usr/tmp, /var/tmp could help, but it isn't 100% foolproof, and some don't even consider it security.

Just a bit of hardening :)

Then again, you can always disable the functions in php.ini for exec and system for instance to help stave off other similar attacks.

That's implicit in safe_mode, AFAIK !

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