VIM Mailing List Technical Discussion - Attrition.org

2007

31 July 2007

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Vim

vim vulnerability mailing-list technical-discussion reverse-engineering php security-research

On July 31, 2007, Francesco Ongaro, known as “ascii”, actively participated in a technical discussion on the VIM (Vulnerability Information Managers) project mailing list, published on Attrition.org. In his intervention, Ongaro analyzed in detail an alleged Remote File Inclusion vulnerability in the RIG Image Gallery software, dismantling previous claims and demonstrating, with practical examples in PHP code, how certain implementations are still susceptible to both remote and local attacks. The contribution highlighted his advanced expertise in reverse engineering and application security, also confirmed by the reference to the USH team website, of which he is the founder.

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