[Full-disclosure] Local user to root escalation in apache 1.3.34 (Debian only)

Richard Thrippleton ret28 at cam.ac.uk
Tue Feb 27 00:37:17 GMT 2007


On Mon Feb 26 21:15, Nikolay Kichukov wrote:
> Lool,
> how long has this bug been around?
Almost a year, looking at that original patch that caused the problem. To be
fair, nobody had commented on the security issues until I stumbled across them
a month ago though.

> Sounds scary.
Yeah, scared me when I first saw it and realised how vulnerable I'd been for so
long. What's also scary is the complete lack of action on what is a fairly
serious problem. I used to think that the Debian project had a sane attitude to
security. Maybe all the good developers have gone to Ubuntu.

Richard




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