Bug#357561: privilege escalation hole

2007-03-05 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-02 00:33:56, schrieb Moritz Muehlenhoff: > Indeed, I'm quite disappointed about apache 1.3 still being in Etch. > Debian is the _only_ distribution still shipping it; the maintainers > couldn't provide _any_ valid reason to still include it (like an important > module not ported to 2.x)

Bug#357561: privilege escalation hole

2007-03-01 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Joey Hess wrote: > On the third hand, this bug has documented a security hole with exploit > in apache for about 2 weeks without any reaction from its maintainers, > and was open for many months before that without any reaction from them. > If apache isn't being maintained, it might be better to dr

Bug#357561: privilege escalation hole

2007-03-01 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Mittwoch, den 28.02.2007, 19:45 -0800 schrieb Russ Allbery: > Daniel Leidert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Package: apache > > Followup-For: Bug #357561 > > > Why isn't anybody of the official maintainers reacting or commenting on > > this bug? There are 3(!) completely undocumented downgr

Bug#357561: privilege escalation hole

2007-03-01 Thread Matthew Johnson
The description given is somewhat incorrect. The escalation exists whether run with -F or not. 033_-F_NOSETSID disables running setsid in all cases. This means that running /etc/init.d/apache start and then not closing the terminal (and people do have long-running shells like this) leaves you vuln

Bug#357561: privilege escalation hole

2007-02-28 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 06:14:41PM +1100, Adam Conrad wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > > > > On the third hand, this bug has documented a security hole with exploit > > in apache for about 2 weeks without any reaction from its maintainers, > > and was open for many months before that without any reacti

Bug#357561: privilege escalation hole

2007-02-28 Thread Adam Conrad
Joey Hess wrote: > > On the third hand, this bug has documented a security hole with exploit > in apache for about 2 weeks without any reaction from its maintainers, > and was open for many months before that without any reaction from them. > If apache isn't being maintained, it might be better to

Bug#357561: privilege escalation hole

2007-02-28 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 07:45:28PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > I certainly agree that it would be good to fix the bug, but I also can see > why the severity was downgraded. I think Russ explained pretty nicely why this escalation is pretty rare from being a true vulnerability, although there inde

Bug#357561: privilege escalation hole

2007-02-28 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel Leidert wrote: > Why isn't anybody of the official maintainers reacting or commenting on > this bug? There are 3(!) completely undocumented downgrades of a bug, # holes depending on terminal exploits have not been treated as RC I suspect that the above downgrade message from vorlon is the

Bug#357561: privilege escalation hole

2007-02-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Daniel Leidert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: apache > Followup-For: Bug #357561 > Why isn't anybody of the official maintainers reacting or commenting on > this bug? There are 3(!) completely undocumented downgrades of a bug, > that IMHO (from reading) fits the "grave" severity. The dow

Bug#357561: privilege escalation hole

2007-02-28 Thread Daniel Leidert
Package: apache Followup-For: Bug #357561 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Why isn't anybody of the official maintainers reacting or commenting on this bug? There are 3(!) completely undocumented downgrades of a bug, that IMHO (from reading) fits the "grave" severity. Please react or