full-disclosure - Execution Flow Control (EFC)

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From: jarlin at ifrance.com (Jarlin)
Subject: Execution Flow Control (EFC)

>
> PROS AND CONS OF EFC.
>
> 1. Can protect against known or unknown vulnerabilities.
>
> Ok, with that in mind, lets see how well it stands up to "unknown"
> attacks...
>
> I'm not one to judge product quality based (partially or otherwise) on
> past or current programming mistakes, but if I was, I'd say that
> something like:
>
> for(i=0;arg[i]; i++) {
> 	if ((strncmp(arg[i], "/etc/shadow",11) == 0) ||
> 		(strncmp(arg[i], "shadow",6) == 0)) {
> 			write(1,"arg cannot be shadow\n", 21);
> 			return 0;
> 	}
> }
>
> is a pretty poor way of making sure people don't play with your shadow
> file.  There are many possibilities here, but the bottom line is that
> the webserver had a poorly written CGI application and EFC didn't seem
> to do much in the way of stopping someone from exploiting it and
> stealing the shadow file.
just what I have done , do a "more /etc/shadoz~" in the webshell.cgi ...
>
> fwiw,
>
> -jon
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