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Options Override & Addtype Sec. Hole?!!




Posted by mello21century, 08-14-2010, 10:35 PM
Hello everyone I got a problem that yesterday I found an uploaded shell on my server and found this .htaccess file I noticed that there was a 1.txt file that been symlink to "/" directory those are uploaded using old scripts on my clients sites and/or hacking my clients pcs I use cxs,csf,modsec., apache 2.2,php5.2.14,suphp,suhosion and I need to disable the override these stuff but I got a problem that I don't want to lose supporting joomla and open sources software that use rewrite and other less security issues is there a way to disable symlink, I chmoded "ln" and tried to disable override in httpd.conf from an old tutorials around here but it all failed please advice

Posted by mello21century, 08-16-2010, 04:50 PM
Any idea to avoid this?

Posted by Steven, 08-16-2010, 08:24 PM
You can disable the override ability but, your customers may not be happy with that.

Posted by mello21century, 08-17-2010, 12:47 AM
then what do you suggest? is there a some security hack to avoid this?

Posted by hostsean, 08-28-2010, 05:21 AM
hi i use this Options ALL ExecCGI -FollowSymLinks -Includes IncludesNOEXEC +Indexes -MultiViews SymLinksIfOwnerMatch AllowOverride AuthConfig Indexes Limit FileInfo Options=IncludesNOEXEC,Indexes,Includes,MultiViews,SymLinksIfOwnerMatch,DirectoryIndex,AddCharset,FileETag but have a problem whit htaccess: Illegal option DirectoryIndex i can find how to fix this



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