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Re: [Full-Disclosure] Temporary Files and Web Sites (swp, ~, etc)

From: Nicob <nicob@nicob.net>
Date: Thu Aug 12 2004 - 06:08:05 EDT

Le jeu 12/08/2004 à 08:45, bugtraq@beyondsecurity.com a écrit :

> There isn't much you can do beside:
> 1) Avoid leaving these files behind
> 2) Make rules in Apache/whatever to block access to .swp, ~, etc files.

The babelweb scanner [1] is already looking for backup files under the
webroot. Tested extensions : '.old', '.bak', '~', '.orig', '.backup',
'.bad'

[1] : http://www.hsc.fr/ressources/outils/babelweb/download/README

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Received on Thu Aug 12 09:49:48 2004

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