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Re: Another flaw in Apache?


From: Filipe Almeida <filipe () rnl ist utl pt>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 16:07:04 +0100

Well... Seems I rushed the mail out.
You can kill the httpd childs but you can't ptrace them because the processes
are not dumpable.

At 10:13 23-06-2002 -0400, Michal Zalewski wrote:
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Filipe Jorge Marques de Almeida wrote:
Not exactly. You are having access to the httpd child process, not a
spawned CGI script. This means that you control some interesting goods,
such as file descriptors, or... oh well, the child process itself. Think
about serving spoofed contents to all requests? Besides, suexec is pretty
popular nowadays.



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