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Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1550-1] New suphp packages fix local privilege escalation



Hi Nicolas,
* Nicolas Boullis <nicolas.boullis@ecp.fr> [2008-04-28 18:10]:
[...] 
> > It was discovered that suphp, an Apache module to run PHP scripts with
> > owner permissions handles symlinks insecurely, which may lead to
> > privilege escalation by local users.
> 
> I upgraded the package as suggested, but it broke my setup.
> 
> For what it's worth, I have a virtualhost whose documentroot is
> /var/www/foo.
> That directory is owned by user foo.
> Under this one, I have a directory /var/www/foo/bar, that contains a
> script index.php, both being owned by user bar.
> (This web site is composed of several branches, managed by different
> people.)

YFYI there is a bug about that: 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=477646

Kind regards
Nico
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