Re: Local user to root escalation in apache 1.3.34 (Debian only)

["Nikolay Kichukov" <hijacker () oldum net>]

Hello Richard,
Seems to me I have also been so unprotected for this long ...

I love the debian project and hope it is not going to an end...

However I already use apache2 for all my machines.

Regards,
-Nikolay Kichukov

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Thrippleton" <ret28 () cam ac uk>
To: "Nikolay Kichukov" <hijacker () oldum net>
Cc: <full-disclosure () lists grok org uk>
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 3:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Local user to root escalation in apache
1.3.34 (Debian only)


> On Mon Feb 26 21:15, Nikolay Kichukov wrote:
> > Lool,
> > how long has this bug been around?
> Almost a year, looking at that original patch that caused the problem. To
be
> fair, nobody had commented on the security issues until I stumbled across
them
> a month ago though.
>
> > Sounds scary.
> Yeah, scared me when I first saw it and realised how vulnerable I'd been
for so
> long. What's also scary is the complete lack of action on what is a fairly
> serious problem. I used to think that the Debian project had a sane
attitude to
> security. Maybe all the good developers have gone to Ubuntu.
>
> Richard

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