Tõnu Samuel wrote:
>
> Nice! I was really nervous already as I got bombed with e-mails and I
> really did not knew much more than was discovered. Meanwhile I am bit
> disappointed that we had nearly month such a bug in wild and software
> distributors like SuSE in my case did not published patches. I think as
> long enough time passed and I hope distributors maybe need to see it - I
> publish exploit. Sorry, this was discovered independently and for me it
> looks like very serious problem.
>
> Script is:
> <?php
>
> $foobar=html_entity_decode($_GET['foo']);
> echo $foobar;
>
> ?>

I very much doubt there are many applications at all containing code
like this. It is illogical to be decoding html entities from user input.
Therefore I would not call this a "very serious problem" and certainly
not a critical bug.

Jasper

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