Re: PHP security (or the lack thereof)

["Bojan Zdrnja" <bojan.zdrnja@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/16/06, Darren Reed <avalon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From my own mail archives, PHP appears to make up at least 4%
> of the email to bugtraq I see - or over 1000 issues since 1995,
> out of the 25,000 I have saved.
>
> People complain about applications like sendmail...in the same
> period, it has been resopnsible for less than 200.
>
> Do we have a new contender for worst security offender ever
> written ?

Well, PHP is a programming language and Sendmail is an application -
I'd say you are comparing apples and oranges here.

If you really want to compare applications, take phpBB for example
(which is the winner in this case), but I don't think it makes much
sense looking for a new contender for worst security offender ever
written ...

Bojan