RE: Critical phpwiki c99shell exploit

["Ryan Neufeld" <it () magpowersystems com>]

On that note you might as well deny php5 too

--Ryan Neufeld

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-----Original Message-----
From: Gadi Evron [mailto:ge () linuxbox org] 
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 9:50 AM
To: rurban () x-ray at
Cc: bugtraq () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: Critical phpwiki c99shell exploit

On 12 Apr 2007 rurban () x-ray at wrote:
> Via the Phpwiki 1.3.x UpLoad feature some hackers from russia uploaded a
php3 or php4 file,
> install a backdoor at port 8081 and have access to your whole disc and
overtake the server.
> A url in the file is http://ccteam.ru/releases/c99shell
>
> The uploaded file has a php, php3 or php4 extension and looks like a gif
to the mime magic.
> So apache usually accepts it.
>
> To fix this phpwiki issue at first move the lib/plugin/UpLoad.php file out
of this directory.
> You can fix it by adding those two lines to your list of disallowed
extensions:
>   php3
>   php4
> Currently only "php" is disallowed.

This is a good best practice, but it doesn't hold water long
range. Further, where do you disallow these extensions? In the
application?

Mostly what the bad guys would do is upload, say.. .jpg, and then rename
it.

        Gadi.

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