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Date:      10 May 2002 01:00:42 +0100
From:      Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com>
To:        "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/www/apache13 Makefile
Message-ID:  <1020988842.45396.7.camel@lobster.originative.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20020509192940.GA6915@nagual.pp.ru>
References:  <200205090212.g492CF336407@freefall.freebsd.org> <1020956755.76738.59.camel@lobster.originative.co.uk>  <20020509192940.GA6915@nagual.pp.ru>

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On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 20:29, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:
> On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 16:05:55 +0100, Paul Richards wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 04:12, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:
> > > ache        2002/05/08 19:12:15 PDT
> > > 
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     www/apache13         Makefile 
> > >   Log:
> > >   chmod a+x cgi-bin.default example scripts
> > 
> > They are deliberately not executable when installed for security
> > reasons. They are just examples only.
> 
> There is no sense to keep non-working examples, it only confuse peoples.  
> There is no security issues with this two scripts.

Are you going to audit them for all future releases?

They also expose information about the server.

The key point though, is that the Apache project deliberately doesn't
install these so they can't possibly cause any problems. What benefit is
there to having these toy CGI examples actually work other than in
creating a potential security risk ?
 
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