MySQL and SQL Column Truncation Vulnerabilities - Stefan Esser

Courtesy Planet PHP  Mon, 08/18/2008 - 04:17

While SQL-Injection is one of the most discussed security problems in web applications other possible problems for SQL queries like overlong input are usually ignored although they can lead to all kinds of security problems.

This might be caused by the fact that security problems that are the result of overlong input are often buffer overflows and buffer overflows are something many web application security experts know nothing about and choose to ignore.

There are however several security...


 

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