https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59886

--- Comment #3 from Eric Covener <[email protected]> ---

(In reply to Christoph Anton Mitterer from comment #2)
> Well, AFAIU, you're anyway going to block at least the Proxy header in httpd
> completely, now, aren't you?

The proposed change for httpd is to not copy this specific header into the
child processes environment with the HTTP_ prefix. 

> 1) has anyone checked whether such naming collisions occur on other HTTP_*
> names (which suexec would let pass all)?

I haven't seen any findings in that area.

> 
> 2) Could it be that people use suexec (i.e. the binary) outside of Apache
> (e.g. behind some other webserver) and would thus benefit from blocking the
> env_var at that level as well?

It's possible, and it's possible they'd benefit from removing HTTP_PROXY in
suexec. If we removed more variables, it's possible they'd be adversely
affected. 

I'd be +0.5 on removing just HTTP_PROXY from suexec. This already happens on
trunk and is just a partial backport.

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