Analysis: MIME sniffing problems in PHP applications

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jun 4, 2009 12:22 PM EDT
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Security specialist Jacques Copeau has analysed a number of well-known PHP applications for susceptibility to the MIME sniffing issue in Internet Explorer. This "protective" feature, originally introduced as a security measure in Internet Explorer 6 and 7, can in fact cause the browser to treat an image as HTML and execute embedded scripts.

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