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Message-ID: <20080111125110.jz4kpeqxbkoogkw8@192.168.168.10>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:51:10 -0600
From: trains <trains@...torunix.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: FWD: PhotoPost vBGallery
	ImportantSecurity	Bulletin

Quoting php0t <php0t@...ro.hu>:

> From: "trains" <trains@...torunix.com>
>> The "AddType" statement for php is normally system-wide, which means
>> the web server will execute php scripts that may be found in the
>> upload directory.  This can be fixed multiple ways:
>
> They will just place an .htaccess and do addtype themselves.
> "php_admin_flag engine off" will probably render most of the issues you
> mentioned useless in one shot.

I had never heard of that flag before.  Nice.

http://us.php.net/manual/es/ref.apache.php

I don't think I like seeing php and apache being so tightly coupled,  
but I suppose we need to live in the real world, eh?

tr

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