RE: [PHP-DEV] FW: (SRADV00001) Arbitrary file disclosure throughPHP file upload From: Signal 11 (signal11 <email protected>)
Date: 09/04/00

> He is a little bit confused. This has nothing to do with register_globals
> and turning off register_globals does nothing to fix this issue. I
> committed a patch which fixes the problem, but we will probably refine it.

More than a little! I posted some more information to bugtraq so that
people can view the bug in the database. You might want to just tag a note
on that bug id saying a patch has been committed and will be available
shortly... aleph usually takes about 4-8 hours to get to messages..

> My suggestion is for people to simply check their $userfile_name variable
> and make sure they are copying a file from their tmp directory and nowhere
> else. And of course, your web server user id should not have access to
> sensitive files on your system anyway.

Well, I made the suggestion to check the filesize.. although your
suggestion should have been obvious to me. Ngggh... that's what I get
for trying to think at 2 in the morning. :\

~ Signal 11 

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