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- Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 22:34:08 -0400
- From: Elaich Of Hhp <hhp@NS.SUSPEND.NET>
- To: BUGTRAQ@netspace.org
- Subject: Discus advisory.
-
- (hhp) Discus advisory. (hhp)
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- Discus (Free discussion for your Web Site!)
- at http://www.chem.hope.edu/discus/ has a directory
- and file permission problem. The code is really
- messy and they need to learn file and permission
- operations better. The source determines the mode
- of the directories and files from other sources:
- Line: 533 in discus3_01/source/src-board-setup
- which is a totally bad idea being that no matter
- what, the private files should not be +r... ie,
- the *.txt's and so on. I contacted the software
- programmers and hope they recognize this problem
- being that the files are so open and easy to find
- with any public search engines. I noticed quite a
- few servers are using this software and I would
- guestimate about 80% or more are vulnerable to
- getting thier userfile cracked and their server
- rooted.
- So my suggestion to people using this
- software is check your modes or either wait for a
- new release of the software. I did not want to get
- into making a patch being that they need to totally
- redo some of their methods.
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- elaich - 2:30:15am CST 4/24/1999
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