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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:36:40 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: John Lightsey <jd@...nel.net>
Subject: Re: CVE request: mod_ruid2 before 0.9.8
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On 03/22/2013 09:08 AM, John Lightsey wrote:
> Hello,
>
> mod_ruid2 is a suexec style module for apache 2.0, 2.2 and 2.4,
> based on mod_ruid and mod_suid2 that allows the Apache webserver to
> run under the UID and GID of the user account that controls a
> virtualhost. It also includes functionality to chroot Apache into
> the virtualhost document root prior to processing HTTP requests.
>
> After processing each request, mod_ruid2 returns to its initial
> starting state. For uid/gid changes this is done using linux
> capabilities. For chroot, this is done by following a file
> descriptor that leads outside of the chroot.
>
> In versions of mod_ruid2 before 0.9.8, the filedescriptor used to
> break out of the chroot is inherited by all Apache subprocesses.
> This allows CGI scripts to also to break out of the chroot by
> performing a fchdir() across the inherited file descriptor.
>
>
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=514C503E.4020109%40users.sourceforge.net&forum_name=mod-ruid-announce
Can
>
you provide a link to the source code fix? thanks.
- --
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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