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Re: [Full-disclosure] Re: Session data pollution vulnerabilities inweb applications



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

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