Bug#357561: privilege escalation hole

2007-03-01 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Joey Hess wrote: > On the third hand, this bug has documented a security hole with exploit > in apache for about 2 weeks without any reaction from its maintainers, > and was open for many months before that without any reaction from them. > If apache isn't being maintained, it might be better to dr

Bug#357561: privilege escalation hole

2007-03-01 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Mittwoch, den 28.02.2007, 19:45 -0800 schrieb Russ Allbery: > Daniel Leidert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Package: apache > > Followup-For: Bug #357561 > > > Why isn't anybody of the official maintainers reacting or commenting on > > this bug? There are 3(!) completely undocumented downgr

Bug#357561: Severity

2007-03-01 Thread Richard Thrippleton
As the person who found and has thoroughly tested this bug, I can confirm firsthand that this isn't just a case of apache being vulnerable with "-F"! I specifically mentioned using the init script in the original report over a month ago, not "-F". That is, the circumstances required to exploit this

Re: Thank you

2007-03-01 Thread reeshma r
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Bug#357561: privilege escalation hole

2007-03-01 Thread Matthew Johnson
The description given is somewhat incorrect. The escalation exists whether run with -F or not. 033_-F_NOSETSID disables running setsid in all cases. This means that running /etc/init.d/apache start and then not closing the terminal (and people do have long-running shells like this) leaves you vuln