On Fri, September 26, 2014 6:05 pm, John R Pierce wrote: > On 9/26/2014 3:36 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> On Fri, September 26, 2014 5:13 pm, John R Pierce wrote: >>> >On 9/26/2014 2:51 PM, Always Learning wrote: >>>> >>Probably all Windoze >>> > >>> >linux apache web servers with the bash exploit are getting owned en >>> >masse today. my (patched) internet web server has logged 100s and >>> >100s of attempts like... >>> > >>> >66.186.2.172 - - [26/Sep/2014:00:49:29 -0700] "GET /cgi-bin/test.sh >> I feel really stupid, but I have to ask. If your server wasn't patched, >> it >> only would have owned by the above if that file exists, is executable by >> apache and it indeed invokes bash (say, has #!/bin/bash or whatever bash >> location is as first line), right? > > no. mod_cgi launches /bin/sh and passes it the command, even if the > file doesn't exist. and /bin/sh is linked to bash > Apache passes it to mod_cgi to have that discover that referenced file doesn't exist?! Did I too program like that when I was programmer? Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++