On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 12:25:54PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Alioth's web server was unavailable for most of the 5th of september. It was
> simply stopped because we discovered that some script kiddies were running an
> IRC proxy. After thorough investigation, we discovered that they exploited a
> pmwiki security hole[1] to deface some web pages, to install some malicious 
> php
> pages which in turn were used to setup the IRC proxy.

Is it possible to rule out privilege escalation?

Greetings
Marc

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