Re: ASP Security Hole (PHP Too)

From: Alexander Leidinger (Alexanderat_private)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 03:32:42 PST

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    On 15 Feb, Joshua J. Drake wrote:
    > The following is also true for PHP.  Naming PHP include files .inc gives
    > anyone full-read access to the files by simply requesting them by name.
    >
    > The solution of course is to do one of the following:
    >
    >   a.  name php include files with a PHP extension (.php, .php3, etc) that is
    >       associated with PHP parsing them
    >   b.  associate .inc files with PHP so that they are parsed and not displayed
    
    c. don't put include files below your DocumentRoot, use
       php3_include_path (apache-modul) or include_path (php3.ini) instead.
    
    Bye,
    Alexander.
    
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