Bug#524474: FollowSymlinks / SymlinksIfOwnerMatch ignored with server-side-includes

2009-05-07 Thread Stefan Fritsch
tags 524474 - security severity 524474 important thanks On Sunday 03 May 2009, John Lightsey wrote: > This shouldn't be tagged as a grave security issue. The symlink > tests in Apache are trivial to overcome with timing attacks and the > Apache documentation explicitly states that the symlink tes

Bug#524474: FollowSymlinks / SymlinksIfOwnerMatch ignored with server-side-includes

2009-05-02 Thread John Lightsey
This shouldn't be tagged as a grave security issue. The symlink tests in Apache are trivial to overcome with timing attacks and the Apache documentation explicitly states that the symlink tests should not be considered a security restriction. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#options