SecurityFocus

PHP security (or the lack thereof) Jun 16 2006 11:21AM
Darren Reed (avalon caligula anu edu au) (4 replies)

Re: PHP security (or the lack thereof) Jun 22 2006 12:15PM
john mullee (jmullee yahoo com) (1 replies)

Re: PHP security (or the lack thereof) Jun 24 2006 10:42PM
Darren Reed (avalon caligula anu edu au) (2 replies)

Re: PHP security (or the lack thereof) Jun 27 2006 05:47AM
Tonnerre Lombard (tonnerre lombard sygroup ch) (1 replies)

Re: PHP security (or the lack thereof) Jun 27 2006 10:27AM
Darren Reed (avalon caligula anu edu au)

Re: PHP security (or the lack thereof) Jun 27 2006 03:38AM
Ronald Chmara (ron Opus1 COM) (1 replies)

Re: PHP security (or the lack thereof) Jul 05 2006 04:17PM
Dan Falconer (dan avsupport com) (1 replies)

Re: PHP security (or the lack thereof) Jul 06 2006 06:47AM
Darren Reed (avalon caligula anu edu au)

Re: PHP security (or the lack thereof) Jun 19 2006 05:07PM
Neil Neely (neil frii com) (1 replies)

RE: [lists] Re: PHP security (or the lack thereof) Jul 16 2006 11:26PM
Curt Purdy (purdy tecman com)

Re: PHP security (or the lack thereof) Jun 17 2006 01:50AM
Jose Nazario (jose monkey org) (1 replies)

Re: PHP security (or the lack thereof) Jun 17 2006 06:06PM
Geo. (geoincidents nls net) (2 replies)

Re: PHP security (or the lack thereof) Jun 22 2006 01:01AM
Crispin Cowan (crispin novell com)

Re: PHP security (or the lack thereof) Jun 20 2006 04:54AM
kicktd (cooljay1804ml bellsouth net) (1 replies)

Re: PHP security (or the lack thereof) Jun 20 2006 10:02AM
Geo. (geoincidents nls net)

Re: PHP security (or the lack thereof) Jun 16 2006 11:06PM
Bojan Zdrnja (bojan zdrnja gmail com) (1 replies)

On 6/16/06, Darren Reed <avalon (at) caligula.anu.edu (dot) au [email concealed]> wrote:
>
> From my own mail archives, PHP appears to make up at least 4%
> of the email to bugtraq I see - or over 1000 issues since 1995,
> out of the 25,000 I have saved.
>
> People complain about applications like sendmail...in the same
> period, it has been resopnsible for less than 200.
>
> Do we have a new contender for worst security offender ever
> written ?

Well, PHP is a programming language and Sendmail is an application -
I'd say you are comparing apples and oranges here.

If you really want to compare applications, take phpBB for example
(which is the winner in this case), but I don't think it makes much
sense looking for a new contender for worst security offender ever
written ...

Bojan

[ reply ]

Re: PHP security (or the lack thereof) Jun 17 2006 05:08PM
Jessica Hope (jessicasaulhope googlemail com)