Next round:
* Recipe for handling "\.(php|php5|phtml|phps)\." manually added
* AddType (with similar problems) mentioned, too
* Typo "momment" fixed
(* Internel revision bump to 3, will be committed as revision 1)
(* Date bumped to today)
(* Links renumbered due to new link [2])
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Title: Apache AddHandler/AddType vulnerability protection
Author: Sebastian Pipping <sp...@gentoo.org>
Content-Type: text/plain
Posted: 2015-03-30
Revision: 3
News-Item-Format: 1.0
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Apache's directives AddHandler [1] (and AddType [2]) can be used
to map certain file name extensions (e.g. .php) to a handler
(e.g. application/x-httpd-php). While a line like
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php .php5 .phtml
matches index.php, it also matches index.php.png.
Apache's notes on multiple file extensions [3] document
a multi-language website as a context where that behavior
may be helpful. Unfortunately, it can be a security threat.
Combined with (not just PHP) applications that support
file upload, the AddHandler/AddType directive can get you into
remote code execution situations.
That is why app-admin/eselect-php now avoids AddHandler
and is shipping
<FilesMatch "\.(php|php5|phtml)$">
SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>
instead.
Why this news entry?
* Since Apache configuration lives below /etc,
you need to run etc-update (or a substitute)
to actually have related fixes applied.
* If you are currently relying on AddHandler to execute
secret_database_stuff.php.inc, moving away from AddHandler
could result in serving your database credentials in plain
text. A command like
find /var/www/ -name '*.php.*' \
-o -name '*.php5.*' \
-o -name '*.phtml.*'
may help discovering PHP files that would no longer be executed.
Shipping automatic protection for this scenario is not trivial,
but you could manually install protection based on this recipe:
<FilesMatch "\.(php|php5|phtml|phps)\.">
# a) Apache 2.2 / Apache 2.4 + mod_access_compat
#Order Deny,Allow
#Deny from all
# b) Apache 2.4 + mod_authz_core
#Require all denied
# c) Apache 2.x + mod_rewrite
#RewriteEngine on
#RewriteRule .* - [R=404,L]
</FilesMatch>
* You may be using AddHandler (or AddType) at other places,
including off-package files. Please have a look.
* app-admin/eselect-php is not the only package
affected. There is a dedicated tracker bug at [4].
As of the moment, affected packages include:
app-admin/eselect-php[apache2]
dev-lang/php[apache2]
net-nds/gosa-core
www-apache/mod_fastcgi
www-apache/mod_flvx
www-apache/mod_python
www-apache/mod_suphp
www-apps/moinmoin
www-apps/rt[-lighttpd]
Thanks to Nico Suhl, Michael Orlitzky and Marc Schiffbauer.
[1] https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_mime.html#addhandler
[2] https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_mime.html#addtype
[3] https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_mime.html#multipleext
[4] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=544560
