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Re: apache security issue (with upstream new release)



Hey, morons, don't drop people from the CC.  Otherwise they'll never
know what you're saying.

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 03:07:26PM +0100, Lupe Christoph wrote:
> Quoting Phillip Hofmeister <plhofmei@zionlth.org>:
> 
> > I believe your justification can be found:
> 
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=218188
> 
> > I'm not saying I agree fully with it...but I do understand it...
> 
> Given that some of the affected directives can be used in .htaccess
> files, the potential for an ordinary user to exploit this is there.
> This allows access to the user the Apache work processes run as. Not
> much, but depending on local setup, this can be harmful.

But if a malicious user has access to .htaccess, you're already fucked
five ways from sunday.

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victory, it is about death.  I've seen thousands and thousands of dead bodies.
Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?" -- Robert Fisk



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