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Re: [Full-disclosure] Apache suEXEC privilege elevation / information disclosure
From: "Stefan Kanthak" <stefan.kanthak () nexgo de>
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 22:15:31 +0200
"Reindl Harald" <h.reindl () thelounge net> wrote:
Am 10.08.2013 16:52, schrieb Tobias Kreidl:It is for this specific reason that utilities like suPHP can be used as a powerful tool to at least keep the account user from shooting anyone but him/herself in the foot because of any configuration or broken security issues. Allowing suexec to anyone but a seasoned, responsible admin is IMO a recipe for disaster.and what makes you believe that a developer can not be a "seasoned, responsible admin"?
Because developers write functions like "system", "symlink" and "suexec" which can create havoc (and are WELL-KNOWN for creating havoc since years) and allow everybody to call them in the default configuration of their software.
bullshit, many of the "seasoned, responsible admins" which are only admins are unable to really understand the implications of whatever config they rollout
It was the developer who created and published this vulnerable software or the vulnerable default configuration in the first place. If a user/administrator who installs software has to turn insecure features OFF its the developer who is to blame, and of course the testers, the QA and the management too. Stefan Kanthak
Current thread:
- Re: Re: [Full-disclosure] Apache suEXEC privilege elevation / information disclosure Hv5hA5ms (Aug 08)
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- Re: [Full-disclosure] Apache suEXEC privilege elevation / information disclosure Tobias Kreidl (Aug 11)
- Re: [Full-disclosure] Apache suEXEC privilege elevation / information disclosure Reindl Harald (Aug 11)
- Re: [Full-disclosure] Apache suEXEC privilege elevation / information disclosure Ansgar Wiechers (Aug 11)
- Re: [Full-disclosure] Apache suEXEC privilege elevation / information disclosure Reindl Harald (Aug 11)
- Re: [Full-disclosure] Apache suEXEC privilege elevation / information disclosure Stefan Kanthak (Aug 11)
- Re: [Full-disclosure] Apache suEXEC privilege elevation / information disclosure Reindl Harald (Aug 12)
- Re: [Full-disclosure] Apache suEXEC privilege elevation / information disclosure Stefan Kanthak (Aug 12)
- Re: [Full-disclosure] Apache suEXEC privilege elevation / information disclosure Reindl Harald (Aug 12)
- Re: [Full-disclosure] Apache suEXEC privilege elevation / information disclosure Coderaptor (Aug 12)
- RE: [Full-disclosure] Apache suEXEC privilege elevation / information disclosure Peter Gregory (Aug 12)
- Re: [Full-disclosure] Apache suEXEC privilege elevation / information disclosure Reindl Harald (Aug 12)
- Re: [Full-disclosure] Apache suEXEC privilege elevation / information disclosure coderaptor (Aug 12)
- Re: [Full-disclosure] Apache suEXEC privilege elevation / information disclosure Brandon M. Graves (Aug 12)
- Re: Re: [Full-disclosure] Apache suEXEC privilege elevation / information disclosure Marco Floris (Aug 13)
- Re: [Full-disclosure] Apache suEXEC privilege elevation / information disclosure Reindl Harald (Aug 11)
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- Re: [Full-disclosure] Apache suEXEC privilege elevation / information disclosure George Machitidze (Aug 12)