I've inherited a large amount of Classic ASP code that is currently missing SQL injection protection, and I'm working on it. I've examined in detail the solutions offered here: Classic ASP SQL Injection Protection On the database side, I have a Microsoft SQL server 2000 SP4
Unfortunately stored procedures are not an option.
After studying php's mysql_real_escape_string ( http://www.w3schools.com/php/func_mysql_real_escape_string.asp ) , I've replicated its functionality in ASP.
My question(s) are:
1) Does Microsoft SQL server 2000 have any other special characters that need to be escaped that are not present in MySQL ( \x00 , \n , \r , \ , ' , " , \x1a )
2) From an answer in Can I protect against SQL Injection by escaping single-quote and surrounding user input with single-quotes? I read "One way to launch an attack on the 'quote the argument' procedure is with string truncation. According to MSDN, in SQL Server 2000 SP4 (and SQL Server 2005 SP1), a too long string will be quietly truncated."
How can this be used for an attack (I really can't imagine such a scenario) and what would be the right way of protecting against it?
3) Are there any other issues I should be aware of? Any other way of injecting SQL?
Note: A 30-min internet search said that there are no libraries for classic ASP to protect against SQL injection. Is this so, or did I really fail at a basic task of searching?