Re: [us...@httpd] permission problem (still)

2009-08-27 Thread Chuck Crisler
On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 12:13 +0200, André Warnier wrote: > Chuck Crisler wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 09:37 +0100, Tom Evans wrote: > > > > > > My cgi-bin directory (/var/www/cgi-bin) is owned by root with these > > permissions drwxr-xr-x. This is from my httpd.conf > > > Hi. > On my Linux (D

Re: [us...@httpd] permission problem (still)

2009-08-27 Thread André Warnier
Chuck Crisler wrote: On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 09:37 +0100, Tom Evans wrote: My cgi-bin directory (/var/www/cgi-bin) is owned by root with these permissions drwxr-xr-x. This is from my httpd.conf Hi. On my Linux (Debian) systems, the cgi-bin directories - and the scripts in it - have a owner "ro

Re: [us...@httpd] permission problem (still)

2009-08-26 Thread Chuck Crisler
On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 09:37 +0100, Tom Evans wrote: > If it was owned by user apache, then if the webserver were exploitable, > the attacker would be able to deface your website. If it is just > readable by apache, then they would need to exploit apache and then find > a local privilege escalation