RE: Is it a security risk to use identical names for database fields and html forms?

2001-09-06 Thread Curtis Poe
--- Gunther Birznieks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's actually quite a bit of interesting stuff out there that has really > only been "discovered" and publicized at all in the last year or two. Null > byte is another huge issue few Perl programmers seem to know > about/understand as it aff

RE: Is it a security risk to use identical names for database fields and html forms?

2001-09-06 Thread Gunther Birznieks
e open() command in a subtle way yet I think it is not described in perldoc perlsec (it seems mostly focused on tainting and general validation issues). >joel > >-Original Message- >From: Gunther Birznieks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: 02 September 2001 01:15 >To:

RE: Is it a security risk to use identical names for database fields and html forms?

2001-09-03 Thread yahoo
le to this kind of attack in contrasts to, say, using stored procedures. I enjoyed reading your post :-) joel -Original Message- From: Gunther Birznieks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 02 September 2001 01:15 To: yahoo; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Is it a security risk to use identical

RE: Is it a security risk to use identical names for database fields and html forms?

2001-09-01 Thread Gunther Birznieks
At 02:29 PM 8/31/2001 +0100, yahoo wrote: >nah! > >what difference does it make? > >I mean, if they guy gets access to your DB server then he's gonna find out >the fieldnames anyway! > >If he can't get access to your DB then what has he got?, a few POSSIBLE DB >field names (i mean, how does HE kno

RE: Is it a security risk to use identical names for database fields and html forms?

2001-09-01 Thread yahoo
nah! what difference does it make? I mean, if they guy gets access to your DB server then he's gonna find out the fieldnames anyway! If he can't get access to your DB then what has he got?, a few POSSIBLE DB field names (i mean, how does HE know the names are real?) for him to attempt to recrea

Re: Is it a security risk to use identical names for database fields and html forms?

2001-08-31 Thread Gunther Birznieks
At 01:55 PM 8/31/2001 -0700, Curtis Poe wrote: >--- "Michael R. Fahey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was looking at a perl script where the developer used different names > > for the incoming parameters and the database field names. He told me > > that this was done for security rea

Re: Is it a security risk to use identical names for database fields and html forms?

2001-08-31 Thread Curtis Poe
--- "Michael R. Fahey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I was looking at a perl script where the developer used different names > for the incoming parameters and the database field names. He told me > that this was done for security reasons-- to ensure that malicious users > would not be able

Re: Is it a security risk to use identical names for database fields and html forms?

2001-08-31 Thread fliptop
"Michael R. Fahey" wrote: > > I was looking at a perl script where the developer used different names > for the incoming parameters and the database field names. He told me > that this was done for security reasons-- to ensure that malicious users > would not be able to discover the field names i