On Sat, 25 Dec 2004, Raistlin wrote:
Juergen Schmidt wrote:
Hello,
the new santy version not only attacks phpBB.
How would these two worms react to classical hardening tips such as PHP Safe mode and noexec /tmp ?
For this particular strain it would certainly help, but that is why there exists new variations. Certainly doing it to /tmp, /usr/tmp, /var/tmp could help, but it isn't 100% foolproof, and some don't even consider it security.
It only protects you from exploits that cannot just go;
source /tmp/rootkit.sh
or other, equivalent methods.
ie its only effective against directly executing files on those filesystems; you can still use other methods to run them.
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