Re: Intresting case of SQL Injection

[Markus Fischer <mfischer () gjat josefine at>]

On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 04:39:15PM -0300, Martin Sarsale (runa@sytes) wrote : 
> Yesterday, we found an interesting case of SQL Injection.
[...]
> The main problem here was that developers where trusting in PHP auto
> escaping which worked in MySQL (and probably PostgreSQL) but not in MSSQL.

    The main problem in fact are developers who do not read the manual
    for their language of choice[tm]. It is documented that
    magic_quotes_sybase = true
    uses the alternate escaping style needed by non-MySQL alike
    databases (eg. MSSQL).

    regards,
        - Markus