Re: Effectiveness of pg_escape_string at blocking SQL injection

From: <operationsengineer1(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: Ed Finkler <coj(at)cerias(dot)purdue(dot)edu>, Volkan YAZICI <volkan(dot)yazici(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-php(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Effectiveness of pg_escape_string at blocking SQL injection
Date: 2005-05-27 17:25:52
Message-ID: 20050527172552.50460.qmail@web52409.mail.yahoo.com
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--- Ed Finkler <coj(at)cerias(dot)purdue(dot)edu> wrote:
> Volkan YAZICI wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > If you think, they're not enough for SQL-Injection
> attacks, I'd advice
> > you to patch libpq code, not PHP.
>
> This is very helpful information. My initial
> thinking is that this
> wouldn't be effective at catching SQL injections,
> but I'll need to
> bounce this off a few other folks.
>
> Thanks!

do let us all know what you find out.

bruno and all... what are bind parameters? how can i
avoid building sql from user input when my sql depends
on user input?

tia...


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