Re: phpBB 2.0.20 Full Path Disclosure and SQL Errors

[Paul Laudanski <zx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 8 May 2006, Maksymilian Arciemowicz wrote:

> "Full Path Disclosure" isn't a risk but many systems of PHP or important 
> sites 
> are vulnerable to this issues. Of course it is possible to turn off 
> display_errors but it isn't changing the fact, that issues should not be. It 
> is typical "Full Path Disclosure". 
> Yesterday I received the confirmation from phpBB about the acceptance of 
> these 
> bug.
> PHP is a specific language and are many different possibilities to show full 
> path. I will public note about this bugs.

I don't disagree, but I do think path disclosure is not a big deal.  If 
you're running a website, the first thing you have to do is secure the 
daemons on it.  And that includes disabling the displaying of errors, 
disabling debugging, etc.

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