Re: phpBB 2.0.8a and lower - IP spoofing vulnerability

[BlueRaven <blue () ravenconsulting it>]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 09:10:55AM +0800, Xin LI wrote:

Hi Xin, I think there's an error in your patch:

> -             if ( !$db->sql_query($sql) )
> +             if ( $user_id != ANONYMOUS && !$db->sql_query($sql) )

This does NOT prevent execution of the query, only effects output of the
message:

>               {
>                       message_die(CRITICAL_ERROR, 'Error creating new session', '', __LINE__, __FILE__, $sql);
>               }

I think it should read as follows:

             if ( $user_id != ANONYMOUS ) {
                if ( !$db->sql_query($sql) {
                   message_die(CRITICAL_ERROR, 'Error creating new session', '', __LINE__, __FILE__, $sql);
                }
             }

I'm not great PHP programmer, though, so please correct me if I'm wrong.
Cheers! :-)

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