News Feed
Jobs Feed
Sections




News Archive
Builder.com.au:
PHP exploit code plants itself in GIF
June 22, 2007 @ 12:41:00

Builder.com.au has a new article today about the recent image issue - the PHP code embedded inside the GIF - that's come up on several sites.

The exploit code slipped through the site's defenses with the aid of a legitimate image at the beginning of the file, according to a blog post on the Sans Institutes's Internet Storm Center. [...] Malicious attackers planted PHP coded exploit script within an image file. PHP is often used as a programming language to create dynamic Web sites.

The article reports that, while this exploit hasn't happened much, the occurrences of it's use are growing with victims in a wide range of classifications - from small personal sites out to a certain major image hosting site. This same issue was discussed here on the PHPClasses.org website as well.

0 comments voice your opinion now!
gif exploit image script embed gif exploit image script embed


blog comments powered by Disqus

Similar Posts

Pierre-Alain Joye's Blog: imagerotate, little confusions in the manual (damned, I cannot say RTFM!)

The Bakery: Image Resize Helper

DevShed: A Basic Monitoring Engine in PHP

Mikko Koppanen: Requested examples: Animating GIF Images

SitePoint PHP Blog: PHP Manual CLI style 2.0


Community Events











Don't see your event here?
Let us know!


testing introduction object interview unittest podcast example framework conference composer community development series zendframework2 release functional tool language code opinion

All content copyright, 2013 PHPDeveloper.org :: info@phpdeveloper.org - Powered by the Solar PHP Framework