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cPanel bugs - are they going to be fixed?

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by nybble, Nov 12, 2004.

  1. nybble

    nybble Well-Known Member

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    Ok well, there are a few things that worry me...

    One is that everyone on the server can view your httpd.conf file
    Second is that everyone can see everyone else on the server & their information, such as username, domain, subdomains etc...

    Are these going to get fixed or what?
     
    #1 nybble, Nov 12, 2004
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    #2 damainman, Nov 12, 2004
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    I didn't but I guess I should... :)
     
    #3 nybble, Nov 12, 2004
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    I believe that both have been raised in the past, but due to the current design, nothing has been done. So, they know about the problems, but I've no idea if they're looking to overcome them.
     
    #4 chirpy, Nov 12, 2004
  5. cPanelBilly

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    These are not security bugs, they are part of a shared hosting system and there is nothing that can be done currently.
     
    #5 cPanelBilly, Nov 13, 2004
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    I'd have to disagree with you Billy. We've shown previously that this could be fixed - it's how cPanel works where the problem is. It is quite possible to protect httpd.conf (this was shown to be possible, but some functionality in cPanel functions break, the web server doesn't) and the other problem really is a design issue.
     
    #6 chirpy, Nov 13, 2004
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    sorry billy but i must side with chirpy on this one.
     
    #7 StevenC, Nov 17, 2004
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    What would you gain? What about /etc/userdomains or /etc/localdomains ?
     
    #8 cPanelNick, Nov 17, 2004
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    our privacy.

    It's just like showing your address book to all, isn't it.
     
    #9 eos1, Nov 17, 2004
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    I've been playing with rights and a little perl script for testing and found that the following seems to work, but obviously would require a lot more testing to be sure.

    chmod 640 httpd.conf
    chown root:nobody httpd.conf

    Now when trying to use something like
    open(MYINPUTFILE, "httpd.conf");

    It results in the following;

    content-type: text/html
    readline() on closed filehandle MYINPUTFILE at ./test.cgi line 4.

    Where as before it would list out httpd.conf

    Anyone up for more testing of this???
     
    #10 dgbaker, Nov 17, 2004
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    I think you are still in Vegas, and there are so many walking apache dictionaries.
    I'm sure you got something for it, and not Gambling...
     
    #12 eos1, Nov 17, 2004
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    #13 dgbaker, Nov 17, 2004
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