Thanks guys, I just want to make sure I understand correctly: using
SqliteDatabase.insert(...) with input from a text field is safe
without sanitizing first?

On Nov 22, 9:55 pm, Kumar Bibek <coomar....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, if you user Raw query, then yeah, I guess it's possible. But if you
> use the query method of the SQLiteDatabase, then I guess, you are safe.
>
> Kumar Bibekhttp://techdroid.kbeanie.comhttp://www.kbeanie.com
>
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Chris Stratton <cs07...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Nov 23, 12:36 am, Kumar Bibek <coomar....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > If you don't have a content provider, you don't have to worry about this
> > at
> > > all. Since, you DB cannot be accessed by other applications.
>
> > Not so fast.  If you have a text field for user entry, or pull a
> > string out of an email or off a website or from any uncontrolled
> > source which then goes into the DB, not sanitizing it creates an
> > attack route.
>
> > See for example the infamous Bobby Tables...http://xkcd.com/327/
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