full-disclosure - Possible apache2/php 4.3.9 worm

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Message-ID: <C506C1A49DFCDB7B619AF51E@utd49554.utdallas.edu>
From: pauls at utdallas.edu (Paul Schmehl)
Subject: Possible apache2/php 4.3.9 worm

--On Tuesday, December 21, 2004 07:32:20 AM -0800 Alex Schultz 
<aschultz@...o-inc.com> wrote:

> Some of the sites I administer were alledgedly hit by a worm last night.
> It overwrote all .php/.html files that were owner writable and owned by
> apache.
>
> We were running apache 2.0.52 and php 4.3.9. Have any of you encounted
> this before?

php 4.3.9 has several serious security flaws in it.  (See here for more 
info - <http://www.php.net/release_4_3_10.php>).  You should have upgrade 
it ASAP.  That's most likely how the script altered the files.

Paul Schmehl (pauls@...allas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu