Lester,

I don't quite understand the relevance of PHPEclipse to the issue.
And I'm not sure how you judge "clogging up" PHP without seeing a patch
especially as I'm not sure how much PHP internals hacking you've done.

Andi
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lester Caine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 11:31 PM
> To: PHP internals
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Run-time taint support proposal
> 
> Wietse Venema wrote:
> > Ilia Alshanetsky:
> >> And here is your first exploit, let's say we say
> >> mysql_real_escape_string() takes tainted data and makes it 
> untainted, 
> >> what happens when this "safe" data is passed to exec().
> > 
> > You need a malicous code writer to have an exploit. As far 
> as I know, 
> > PHP is not a platform for secuerly executing hostile code.
> > 
> >> You are going
> >> to need to deal with different levels of taint-untainted 
> and 1 bit is 
> >> not going to give you that flexibility. You are going to 
> need an int/ 
> >> long, maybe even a long long.
> > 
> > Sandboxing malicious code requires a lot more than taint levels.
> > 
> > I'll be happy to provide that, but it's outside of the contribution 
> > that I'm trying to make for 2007. Right now I am merely 
> targeting the 
> > non-malicious programmers.
> 
> In that case do we really need something clogging up the code base?
> Improving the performance of tools like PHPEclipse would seem 
> to me to be a better use of resources than adding the same 
> sort of checks into the runtime engine?
> 
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