Re: [SC-L] Re: [WEB SECURITY] On sandboxes, and why you should care

2006-05-27 Thread George Capehart
Dinis Cruz wrote: > After my explanations in this email do you still think that this is > correct? Or can you accept now that it is possible to build a Sandboxed > environment that is able to protect against the majority of the serious > security issues that affect web apps today? > > If you do

RE: [SC-L] Re: [WEB SECURITY] On sandboxes, and why you should care

2006-05-27 Thread Jeff Williams
Dinis Cruz wrote: > If you do accept that it is possible to build such sandboxes, then we > need to move to the next interesting discussion, which is the 'HOW' > > Namely, HOW can an environment be created where the development and > deployment of such Sandboxes makes business sense. It's the "b

Re: [SC-L] Re: [WEB SECURITY] On sandboxes, and why you should care

2006-05-24 Thread Andrew van der Stock
Dinis, Sandboxing prevents a machine from having bad system() and buffer overflows causing system compromise. Sure that's bad enough. However, sandboxing does not prevent: * all types of cross-site scripting * SQL injection * Command injection via SQL injection (xp_cmdshell and similar Orac