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Bug#431048: suexec permissions are DANGEROUS



On Freitag, 29. Juni 2007, James Le Cuirot wrote:
> This allows ANYONE to run suexec as root. I can't believe this has
> slipped through. As the Apache docs very clearly state over at
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/suexec.html, they should be set
> with...

This problem isn't very severe. suexec checks which user executed it 
and aborts if it wasn't www-data. So the permissions are just an 
additional safeguard against bugs in suexec.

But I agree that this should be fixed (probably in etch r2).

Cheers,
Stefan

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