Re: (security) Rules of thumb for escaping user input?

On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 09:56:45AM -0500, Bill Gribble wrote:
> So the only escaping I do in my app currently is to replace ' with '' in
> user-input strings.  If I assume that the goal is to prevent any
> user-input strings from being evaluated as SQL statements (only to allow
> user input as constant values), what other escaping do I need to do?

Off the top of my head, you should probably be escaping the backslash (\)
also.

> Is there a SQL "hack prevention" FAQ out there somewhere?

Not that I know of. If you're using perl you can use the tainting mechanism.
Modify Pg.pm to complain about any tainted queries. Then only values that
you have cleared through a regex will work. Very secure, but can be a lot of
work.

Other languages have tainting also IIRC.

However, I find escaping just as you're building the query to be quite
effective.
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