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Re: (php?) bug exploit report



On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:00:04AM +0100, Oliver Hitz wrote:
> I think you should be able to avoid such exploits by using PHP's safe
> mode. It allow you, among other things, to specify that only files in
> a particular directory may be executed. This way, even if someone
> succeeds uploading an exploit onto your server, he won't be able to run
> it.

Recommend that you also take a look at mod_security
(http://www.modsecurity.org/) for apache.

/Thomas
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