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Re: apache security issue (with upstream new release)



Ups, my apologies. You're completely right. I meant "remote access with
apache user rights".
-R

> On Saturday, 2003-11-01 at 11:03:16 +0100, roman@rs-labs.com wrote:
>
>> - the bug is quite serious (local root, at minimun)
>
> I wonder how a user would obtain root priviledges by overrunning an
> Apache worker process. Unless, of course, the admin was clever enough
> to run Apache with "User root".
>
> Lupe Christoph
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