Oddities of PHP file access in Windows ®. Cheat-sheet [maybe 0day]

[Владимир Воронцов <vladimir.vorontsov () onsec ru>]

Hello Full-Disclosure!

Abstract
Notorious web development language, PHP, is under constant watch of the
hackers, security
researchers and other persons who just love to tinker around some stuff.
Numerous vulnerabilities and
bugs of PHP interpreter regularly highlights bug-tracks, wakes up
administrators and burdens the minds
of web site owners. And we never can know what nifty tricks PHP
interpreter had reserved for our next
day. In this paper we will describe details about how PHP treats file
names on Windows operating
systems, regarding the presence of different fuzzy characters

Original English article: http://onsec.ru/onsec.whitepaper-02.eng.pdf

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Best regards, 
Vladimir Vorontsov
ONsec security expert

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