Re: Path disclosure in PHP 5.3.1

[Gynvael Coldwind <gynvael () coldwind pl>]

Hi,

I don't think this is a new vulnerability / warning.
I saw it 3 months ago in a comment from an anonymous user (on my blog):

English translation (by me, original was in Polish):
> 2009-09-24 10:39:34: "not one but two" well actually 3 :)
> I would like to say that as far as session start goes, there are three
> ways (or more) to see the path. The third way is to change the session
> string to a very long string (I haven't tested how long it should be), and
> we get: Unknown(): Failed to write
> session data (files) lub open(/cos/sess_cos, O_RDWR) failed: in ...

The original comment, in Polish:
> 2009-09-24 10:39:34: "nie jeden a 2 błedy" a dokładnie 3 :)
> Chciałem tylko zaznaczyć że jeśli chodzi o session start można wywołać
> na 3 sposoby(pewnie istnieje więcej) ścieżkę dostępu. A mianowicie 3 to
> zamiana zmiennej sesji na ciąg bardzo długi (nie testowałem dokładnie
> ile znaków) po czym dostajemy informacje: Unknown(): Failed to write
> session data (files) lub open(/cos/sess_cos, O_RDWR) failed: in ...

Take care,
-- 
gynvael.coldwind//vx

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