At 08:15 AM 2/5/2002, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
>The fact that 3rd party libs can load arbitrary files is not a new
>concept.  Every time I give a moderately detailed PHP talk I mention the
>fact that there is a way to load a file through the oci8 libs.  Of course
>it can be done through the mysql libs as well.  This is not a new concept.
>All someone woulod have had to do to learn of this "vulnerability" would
>have been to go to any of the PHP talks I have given in the past 3 years.

Which means that about a one out of every 10,000 PHP users are aware of it? :)

Seriously though, it should probably be noted some prominent place that 
safe mode isn't safe, at best, it's safer.

Zeev


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