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Re: Security flaw in Count.cgi (wwwcount) (fwd)

Hi,

Andreas Jellinghaus brought this to my attention earlier this weekend and
I've looked into it.  I believe we are not vulnerable as the location of
the digits directory is hard-coded into wwwcount.cgi as
/usr/lib/wwwcount/digits and the program checks to see it is only this
directory being accessed.  I was not able to replicate the exploit
mentioned but I am not an expert in these matters so I invite others to
try.  Tomorrow I will confer with the upstream author to see what he has
to say about it.

-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@braincells.com>
I got engaged! See the pictures ==> http://www.braincells.com/jaldhar/sagpan

On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Joey Hess wrote:

> Christian Hudon wrote:
> > We don't ship wwwcount, right?
> 
> I'm afraid we do:
> 
> Package: wwwcount
> Priority: optional
> Section: web
> Installed-Size: 404
> Maintainer: Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@braincells.com>
> Architecture: i386
> Version: 2.3-5
> Depends: libc6
> Recommends: httpd
> Filename: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/web/wwwcount_2.3-5.deb
> Size: 154462
> MD5sum: 371b5df6343aba9d6629dc7ecb177404
> Description: Web page access counter
>  This is an extremely versatile web page access counter written in C by
>  Mohammed A. Muquit (ma_muquit@fccc.edu)  You can display the number of
>  hits in various styles for any number of pages, for any number of
>  users.  You can even display the time and date.
>  
> > I'm pretty sure we don't, but I can't check from here. It'd be nice if
> > someone could check and report to the list. 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> >   Christian
> > 
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 18:42:37 +0300
> > From: Razvan Dragomirescu <drazvan@kappa.ro>
> > To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
> > Subject: Security flaw in Count.cgi (wwwcount)
> > 
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> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I have found a vulnerability in Muhammad A. Muquit's wwwcount version 2.3
> > which allows remote users to read any GIF file on the server, regardless
> > of HTTP permissions set. The file must be readable by the user running the
> > HTTP server and it can be anywhere on the disk (not only under the
> > HTTP daemon's document root directory)
> > 
> > It appears that the bug is present ONLY in version 2.3. Older versions do
> > not have it.
> > 
> > Here's how it works:
> > 
> > Using an URL like
> > http://attacked.host.com/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?display=image&image=../../../../../../path_to_gif/file.gif
> > you can see (and download) any GIF image on the server.
> > 
> > You can't use this to download other file types because the program
> > checks the file format.
> > 
> > The use for this is not yet very clear, but some companies might have
> > sensitive information in GIF files (charts, drafts etc.). And of course,
> > this is heaven for XXX site hunters who can bypass user-level
> > authentication and download the image if they know the name and the path.
> > 
> > And one more thing. A search on AltaVista for "Count.cgi" returned about
> > 200.000 matches. I do not know how many of them were versions 2.3.... but
> > even 50.000 vulnerable computers do not make me feel comfortable.
> > 
> > Be good.
> > Razvan
> > 
> > P.S. You can find information about wwwcount at
> > http://www.fccc.edu/users/muquit/Count.html
> > 
> > 
> > - --
> > Razvan Dragomirescu
> > drazvan@kappa.ro  drazvan@romania.ro
> > drazvan@roedu.net drazvan@graypeak.com
> > Phone: +40-1-6866621
> > "Smile, tomorrow will be worse" (Murphy)
> > 
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> > 
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> 




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