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See also David Wheeler's excellent [http://www.dwheeler.com/secure-programs/Secure-Programs-HOWTO/index.html Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO]. | See also David Wheeler's excellent [http://www.dwheeler.com/secure-programs/Secure-Programs-HOWTO/index.html Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO]. | ||
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Latest revision as of 17:14, 14 December 2009
If your input comes from external, you must validate that input. Don't try to identify what's illegal and remove that from the input, do it the other way around: check what's legal (because you will likely forget cases of illegal input).
See also David Wheeler's excellent Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO.
