Re: phpBB vulnerability exploited

2005-01-12 Thread Wacquiez Sébastien
Fraser Campbell wrote: On Sunday 12 December 2004 17:46, Marek Podmaka wrote: I don't want to give hints on how to exploit this, but the attacker did wget the .tgz file, unpacked it in /tmp and run the program. So update all your phpBB installations ASAP (and of course all installations of your

Re: phpBB vulnerability exploited

2005-01-11 Thread Lucas Albers
Francesco P. Lovergine said: > I run apache using dchroot to avoid the most common problems. > Breaking a chroot is possible, but not so easy and it's more > difficult within dchroot which _should_ drops privileges properly AFAIK

Re: phpBB vulnerability exploited

2004-12-14 Thread Jerome Vandenabeele
Hi Fraser, On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 07:53:38 -0500 Fraser Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my case I doubt it since much of postfix lives there. It might be > possible in certain cases though I'm not sure. Maybe you could make 2 partitions: /var mounted noexec and /var/spool/postfix mounted ex

Re: phpBB vulnerability exploited

2004-12-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jerome Vandenabeele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.14.1200 +0100]: > Maybe you could make 2 partitions: /var mounted noexec and > /var/spool/postfix mounted exec I hope you are running a 2.6 kernel if you rely on the exec flag. Sorry for barking into this thread, which I have not followe

Re: phpBB vulnerability exploited

2004-12-13 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 01:44:41PM +0200, Boris Pavlov wrote: > > limit with php opendir. make another tmp directory, and set php temp dir, > with all permissions you want. limit the system function, if you don't need > it. they are a per-vhost apache settings, check the manuals. > I run apac

Re: phpBB vulnerability exploited

2004-12-13 Thread Fraser Campbell
On Monday 13 December 2004 03:31, Marek Podmaka wrote: > Yes, I have been doing the same with /tmp, but some debian packages > won't install on noexec /tmp. But there are other directorieso n my > system which are world writable - for example /var/tmp and > /var/lock. If you've configured

Re: phpBB vulnerability exploited

2004-12-13 Thread Boris Pavlov
better look at your php4 settings: limit with php opendir. make another tmp directory, and set php temp dir, with all permissions you want. limit the system function, if you don't need it. they are a per-vhost apache settings, check the manuals. wwell edi Fraser Campbell writes: On Sunday

Re: Re[2]: phpBB vulnerability exploited

2004-12-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Marek Podmaka wrote: > Yes, I have been doing the same with /tmp, but some debian packages > won't install on noexec /tmp. But there are other directorieso n my > system which are world writable - for example /var/tmp and > /var/lock. If you can make /tmp noexec, you c

Re[2]: phpBB vulnerability exploited

2004-12-13 Thread Marek Podmaka
Hello Fraser, Yes, I have been doing the same with /tmp, but some debian packages won't install on noexec /tmp. But there are other directorieso n my system which are world writable - for example /var/tmp and /var/lock. Can entire /var be mounted noexec? Monday, December 13, 2004, 4:17

Re: phpBB vulnerability exploited

2004-12-12 Thread Fraser Campbell
On Sunday 12 December 2004 17:46, Marek Podmaka wrote: >   I don't want to give hints on how to exploit this, but the attacker >   did wget the .tgz file, unpacked it in /tmp and run the program. > >   So update all your phpBB installations ASAP (and of course all >   installations of your customer

phpBB vulnerability exploited

2004-12-12 Thread Marek Podmaka
Hello debian-isp, maybe little off-topic, but I want to remind you of this phpBB vulnerability, which is fixed in version 2.0.11 (announced on 18th November) which "addresses a potentially serious exploit". I am writing this because it's not potentional, but real. Before 2 weeks, someon