Re: Bug in Apache 1.3.20 Server - Hackemate Research

[Petr Baudis <pasky () pasky ji cz>]

> Like you can see, the sess_ files permissions are -rw------- for user
> root or www-data (like ja apache is installed)
> All other users can't read the info (non of the same group nor the other
> users)
>
> only the user running the apache server itself
> so show me where the security leak is ?
> I think its normal that apach itself can read the file and no one else
> can!
Well, IMHO storing a plain-text password is a problem anyway, and against
the 'good-practices'. Tell me, why passwords are usually stored only in
md5 hash form in /etc/shadow? It's readable only for root, so should be
no problem ;-).

Possible intruder which will gain apache's privilegies, can read the file
and get the plaintext passwords *very* easily, w/o running any brute-force
decoder on them. And that's a Bad Thing (tm).

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                                Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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        n = ((n >>  1) & 0x55555555) | ((n <<  1) & 0xaaaaaaaa);
        n = ((n >>  2) & 0x33333333) | ((n <<  2) & 0xcccccccc);
        n = ((n >>  4) & 0x0f0f0f0f) | ((n <<  4) & 0xf0f0f0f0);
        n = ((n >>  8) & 0x00ff00ff) | ((n <<  8) & 0xff00ff00);
        n = ((n >> 16) & 0x0000ffff) | ((n << 16) & 0xffff0000);
                -- C code which reverses the bits in a word.
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My public PGP key is on: http://pasky.ji.cz/~pasky/pubkey.txt
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