Re: A question to core developers

2010-07-18 Thread Ma'moon
Hello Graham, Thanks a lot for your kind answer, i was pretty sure that in no way there are any globals are being passed to extract inside Cake's core, i just wanted to make sure of that in order to show it to my "paranoid" client! Thanks again. Cheers, Ma'moon On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 2:30 AM, s

Re: A question to core developers

2010-07-18 Thread saidbakr
Hi, I need an example that demonstrates the security risk in a CakePHP application depends on extract!!! On Jul 19, 1:40 am, Graham Weldon wrote: > Extract is only ever used on settings and the like. > While we do a lot to ensure the security and safety of the framework, > we do not provide secur

Re: A question to core developers

2010-07-18 Thread Graham Weldon
Extract is only ever used on settings and the like. While we do a lot to ensure the security and safety of the framework, we do not provide security for developers passing in globals and exposing potential security risks or issues. The core at no point will extract and override a global like $_FIL

A question to core developers

2010-07-18 Thread Ma'moon
Dear CakePHP core developers, I have noticed that the "extract" function is being used in so many places all over the core files "more than 100", and as you know, the extract function is very dangerous to use according to the warning being mentioned in the documentation page @ php.net/extract , kin