Re: PHP 5.2.12/5.3.1 session.save_path safe_mode and open_basedir bypass

[Joachim Schipper <joachim () joachimschipper nl>]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 03:35:28PM +0100, Christian Sciberras wrote:
> What exactly are the implications of this?
> Surely no one [website] accepts paths.

Some providers of shared hosting give each user the same uid and
restrict them to their own directories via open_basedir. This breaks
that mechanism (again).

                Joachim

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