oss-security - CVE request: yet another lighttpd issue

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Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:15:03 -0800
From: Jonathan Smith <smithj@...ethemallocs.com>
To:  oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, 
 "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: CVE request: yet another lighttpd issue

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This is another one of those only-with-strange-configuration issues. If
you enable mod_userdir and don't set userdir.path, it defaults to $HOME.
This can be undesirable, but especially so when you browse to a user
such as nobody, who has a homedir of /. Thus, folks can read any file on
the system.

Upstream ticket: http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/ticket/1587
Fix (require that userdir.path be set):
http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/changeset/2120?format=diff&new=2120
rPath issue: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2344#action_51691
Gentoo bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212930

	smithj

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