Read the first post by Luiz. This is only applicable if your running
apache chrooted and htpasswd is part of that chrooted environment.
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 11:53:16PM +0200, Andr? Malo wrote:
* Larry Cashdollar <lwc@vapid.ath.cx> wrote:
This was posted on the full-disclosure list sept 16 2004 by
Luiz Fernando.
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-09/0547.html
The nessus check for this vulnerability recommends upgrading to
Apache version 1.3.32:
http://cgi.nessus.org/plugins/dump.php3?id=14771
But in Apache 1.3.33:
lachoy# grep strcpy /install/src/apache_1.3.33/src/support/htpasswd.c
strcpy(record, user);
strcpy(pwfilename, argv[i]);
strcpy(user, argv[i + 1]);
strcpy(password, argv[i + 2]);
strcpy(scratch, line);
It is still vulnerable.
If you start htpasswd from a shell and you exploit some kind of buffer
overflow, you get ... a shell?. Wow!
Whoever runs htpasswd setuid is darn silly. The httpd developers, the docs and
commonsense tell, that the program is just not designed for such an intention.
Or in other words, take any program that's not designed for being run setuid
and you'll find a "vulnerability" (e.g. with malloc debug environment
variables or the like).
Sorry, I can't see a security vulnerability here.
nd
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