Re: [PHP-DEV] Security Audit Priorities

2023-09-30 Thread Dusk
On Sep 25, 2023, at 01:49, Derick Rethans wrote: > The Foundation is organising an external audit/security check of the PHP > source code. As part of that, we would like to identify the places in > the PHP source code where checking this will have the most impact. String parsing functions. Not

Re: [PHP-DEV] Security Audit Priorities

2023-09-27 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! This reminds me of something. There's an interesting paper about ReDoS resilience in different regex engines. Some programming languages, including PHP, are evaluated there and compared: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec22-turonova.pdf PHP has some configuration knobs for pcre

Re: [PHP-DEV] Security Audit Priorities

2023-09-27 Thread Niels Dossche
Hi On 25/09/2023 17:33, Tim Düsterhus wrote: > Hi > > On 9/25/23 10:49, Derick Rethans wrote: >> So, if you can suggest an area where doing an external review would have >> high impact, please reply to this email. > > Some things from top of my head in arbitrary order. Not all of them are >

Re: [PHP-DEV] Security Audit Priorities

2023-09-26 Thread Robert Landers
On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 10:49 AM Derick Rethans wrote: > > Hi, > > The Foundation is organising an external audit/security check of the PHP > source code. As part of that, we would like to identify the places in > the PHP source code where checking this will have the most impact. > > Typical

Re: [PHP-DEV] Security Audit Priorities

2023-09-25 Thread Tim Düsterhus
Hi On 9/25/23 10:49, Derick Rethans wrote: So, if you can suggest an area where doing an external review would have high impact, please reply to this email. Some things from top of my head in arbitrary order. Not all of them are necessarily important themselves per se, but rather intended to

Re: [PHP-DEV] Security Audit Priorities

2023-09-25 Thread Hans Henrik Bergan
the php-fpm master<->php-fpm worker glue code. php-fpm master usually runs as *root*, so a compromise in that glue could lead to webserver rooting On Mon, 25 Sept 2023 at 10:49, Derick Rethans wrote: > > Hi, > > The Foundation is organising an external audit/security check of the PHP > source

[PHP-DEV] Security Audit Priorities

2023-09-25 Thread Derick Rethans
Hi, The Foundation is organising an external audit/security check of the PHP source code. As part of that, we would like to identify the places in the PHP source code where checking this will have the most impact. Typical areas would be where user input can be (automatically read) remotely,