Re: [Full-disclosure] Apache suEXEC privilege elevation / information disclosure

[James Birk <jamesbirk@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 13, 2013, at 3:55 AM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Am 13.08.2013 00:42, schrieb Brandon M. Graves:
>> I hate to come late to the party, but following all of this, it is kind of
>> ridiculous.
>> 
>> I have to agree with those before in saying software should ship secure.
>> in my environment whenever we are given a new bit to add to our
>> infrastructure, be it a new server, new version of an OS, or new version
>> of a software, either A) it comes to us from those at our distribution
>> point pre templated to be unusable due to security, or B) we first make
>> it unusable by configuring every possible security setting to be as tight
>> as possible...
> 
> nobody said anything else
> 
> but "Apache suEXEC privilege elevation" is *not* a suEXEC
> problem and that's the whole point - people in this thread
> mixing a lot of different things partly with no clue

Precisely.  This entire thread is filled with people who not only do not know 
how Apache works, but how Bugtraq works either.  That said, this issue is of 
course not a bug, but a feature-- a feature which if used, opens a mild to 
moderate vulnerability which can be corrected on the substrate in any number of 
ways.

So y'all need to sit down.



James.