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Date:      Fri, 26 Sep 2014 16:38:03 +0400
From:      Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
To:        Chris Nehren <cnehren+freebsd-security@pobox.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bash velnerability
Message-ID:  <20140926123803.GA30925@zxy.spb.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20140925193555.GB28430@satori.lan>
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On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 03:35:55PM -0400, Chris Nehren wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:57:38 -0500, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> > 1. Do not ever link /bin/sh to bash. This is why it is such a big
> > problem on Linux, as system(3) will run bash by default from CGI.
> 
> I would think that this would cause other, more fundamental,
> issues.  FreeBSD's system don't expect /bin/sh to be bash,
> and I wouldn't be surprised if they break for whatever reason.
> 
> > 2. Web/CGI users should have shell of /sbin/nologin.
> > 3. Don't write CGI in shell script / Stop using CGI :)
> > 4. httpd/CGId should never run as root, nor "apache". Sandbox each
> > application into its own user.
> 
> And its own jail.  Jails with ZFS are dirt cheap.

For goodness of jail with ZFS we need fixing unionfs and devfs.



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