Re: [WEBMASTER] 'www/html/devel-corner index.html'

On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> Alfred Perlstein <bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net> writes:
> > It's on security focus:
>
> > Cvsweb 1.80 makes an insecure call to the
> > perl OPEN function, providing attackers with
> > write access to a cvs repository the ability to
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > execute arbitrary commands on the host
> > machine. The code that is being exploited
> > here is the following: open($fh, "rlog
> > '$filenames' 2>/dev/null |")
>
> > Actually, now that I've looked at it you guys seem to be using 1.93
> > a bit newer than the vulnerable version.
>
> Since we don't hand out cvs write access very freely, this doesn't seem
> like a big problem. Still, it might be a good idea to actually remove
> the old version of cvsweb (cvswebtest) rather than just not have it
> linked to anymore ...

Done.

>
>
> > Do you guys have a private developers' list that doesn't get broadcast
> > back out that I can use if anything like this pops up in the future?
>
> You can send security concerns to pgsql-core(at)postgreSQL(dot)org --- the core
> list isn't publicly readable (or even archived anywhere, AFAIK).
>
> regards, tom lane
>

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