Posted by Mark Krenz on 01/22/06 18:17

Perhaps this would be a problem if you wrote a PHP program to reverse
stenography on images it receives and execute them. ;-)


On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 10:58:37AM GMT, Rory Browne [rory.browne@gmail.com] said the following:
> I'd be a bit skeptical about the possibly of embedding PHP code inside
> a GIF file. Could you outline how he performed the task?
>
> On 1/22/06, jonathan <news_php@arclocal.com> wrote:
> > what is the best way to prevent malicious code from being uploaded
> > via a .gif file? A friend showed me how php could be embedded within
> > the .gif file. Does this problem also exist for .jpeg's?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > jon
> >
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