Re: release critical bug in apache2.2?
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 01:38:21PM +0100, Bastian Venthur <venthur@debian.org> wrote:
> On 02.11.2006 20:16 schrieb sean finney:
> > On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 19:20 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> >> Auto-indexes are enabled only in /var/www/apache2-default and
> >> /usr/share/apache2/icons by default, so it is not likely to leak any
> >> unexpected file list.
> >>
> >> So no, that doesn't grant an RC bug for these reasons.
> >>
> >> On the other hand, it breaks configurations that used to work... (sites
> >> relying on this index.php setting will get 403 errors after upgrade from
> >> 2.0)
> >
> > i imagine the apache maintainers will argue that it should be either (a)
> > the webapp package or (b) the php apache module's repsonsibility
> > to specify the additional DirectoryIndex.
> >
> > iirc DirectoryIndex does/can append to the list of index files, right?
> > if so i'd have no problem slipping this into the php/apache module
> > configuration files if that's the agreed course of action. but whether
> > or not this makes it to etch is an open question.
>
> Is it possible that adding an updated DirectoryIndex does not fix the
> whole bug? Although it fixes the problem that index.php files are not
> recognized when entering a certain directory, I noticed that accessing a
> php file directly like
>
> http://somedomain.tld/index.php
>
> The file does not get executed as expected, but the browser wants to
> download it (which might be a security issue).
Then it is likely that you don't have php installed.
Mike
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