On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 19:18 +0000, Dave Korn wrote: > Yes he is. He's polluting sanitized data with tainted data. It's a > fairly reasonable description if you ask me. I didn't see any sanitized data. It's a POST input, not something clean and trusted. > NO! You've /completely/ failed to understand the post. > > The underlying issue is not that the user-supplied data is trusted, > because it isn't, it gets validated. Where did that happen? I haven't seen a validation in his example. > The _underlying_ issue is that the > *same* location is used to store both trusted and non-trusted data, and > there's no way for the application to know which kind of data was last > stored in that location. You're not telling me that $_POST['login'] is trusted data, are you? -Frank -- It is said that the Internet is a public utility. As such, it is best compared to a sewer. A big, fat pipe with a bunch of crap sloshing against your ports.
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