Re: [Full-Disclosure] Frontpage Extensions Remote Command Execution

[Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>]

--On Wednesday, November 12, 2003 02:53:02 PM -0500 Damian Gerow 
<damian@sentex.net> wrote:

> Thus spake mattmurphy@kc.rr.com (mattmurphy@kc.rr.com) [12/11/03 14:41]:
> > bulletin.  A decent admin would configure FPSE such that this flaw is a
> > non-issue.  This is because no ordinary user has a reason to be accessing
> > FPSE's files.  If FPSE is secured, this means that an attacker is getting
> > their own privileges back.
>
> A decent OS shouldn't need the admin to go in and modify permissions on
> specific files in order to give a ensure a basic security requirement.
> While an ordinary user may have no reason to access those files, an
> ordinary admin should similarily have no reason for modifying the
> permissions on those files.
You're serious?   I mean *really* serious?  Or is this a test?

How do you explain this, for example?

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/security_tips.html

Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu

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