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CVE Request: rubygem passenger security issue
From: Marcus Meissner <meissner () suse de>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 17:46:44 +0100
Hi, https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804722 https://github.com/FooBarWidget/passenger/commit/8c6693e0818772c345c979840d28312c2edd4ba4#commitcomment-2643541 Quoting: There is a security issue regarding passenger that has been fixed in master. However, this does only apply if you deploy arbitrary untrusted apps on you server. Very unlikely for us but still I thought it was worth to inform you. It fixes a security issue, but unless you're on a shared environment it's not a grave issue. It allows an application process to delete an arbitrary file, even a file it does not have permi ssion to, but only during application startup (i.e. during evaluation of config.ru). Once the application is started, it cannot be exploited, so external visitors cannot influence this. If you deploy arbitrary untrusted apps on your server then this issue can be a problem. If all your apps are trusted (e.g. because your organization wrote) them then there's no problem. Unquote I am not sure this warrants a CVE. Ciao, Marcus
Current thread:
- CVE Request: rubygem passenger security issue Marcus Meissner (Mar 01)
- Re: CVE Request: rubygem passenger security issue Kurt Seifried (Mar 01)
