I think you meant "apache follows symlinks even when -FollowSymLinks is *not * set". Otherwise it doesn't seem to make sense?
Cheers, Chris. On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 5:14 PM, halfdog <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > For those, who did not already know: > > Due to specification, apache follows symlinks even when -FollowSymLinks > is set, when the data is modified concurrently. This can be trivially > shown as demonstrated in > http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2011/ApacheNoFollowSymlinkTimerace/ . > When performing host hardening, do not think, the -FollowSymLinks option > alone will prevent you from symlink attacks. > > - -- > http://www.halfdog.net/ > PGP: 156A AE98 B91F 0114 FE88 2BD8 C459 9386 feed a bee > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFOBKnlxFmThv7tq+4RAssHAJ4jiIVCzRLrVFeR6NOXaMSnyOf17ACdEnop > yY8Z4UJ9saIxDmDBy/KEZTI= > =eNhL > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ >
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