[Koha-devel] Re: XSS Vulnerabilities in Koha

[Rick Welykochy]

Chris Cormack wrote:

> Yep you might be able to do that, but all you would get is an md5 
> string, we have just rewritten the authentication module using 
> CGI::Session for 3.0.
> And it wouldn't be any use to you, unless you were also spoofing the ip 
> of the of machine that created that particular session.
> Nothing of interest is stored in the cookie anymore.

Sounds great.

And an amazing coincidence, if I read you correctly: just yesterday I was
thinking about tamper-proof and secure cookies, and came up with a similar
idea, i.e. encode the IP address of the client somewhere in a secured
digest of the information you want.

cheers
rickw



-- 
_________________________________
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
      -- Mark Twain