[Zope-dev] cgi.py vulnerability = opera multipart handling

Richard Jones richard@bizarsoftware.com.au
Fri, 27 Jul 2001 10:15:08 +1000


On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 00:45, you wrote:
> It seems that my longrunning-unanswered problem with Opera
> and Zope (see earlier Posts) is the same as the cgi.py
> problem.
>
> My Question: These Requests, that cause the DoS, are they
> malformed or valid?

As explained on the bug report page on sourceforge, these are malformed 
requests.

I have no knowledge of the Opera browser, and therefore cannot comment on 
whether it is generating malformed requests.


    Richard

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Richard Jones
richard@bizarsoftware.com.au
Senior Software Developer, Bizar Software (www.bizarsoftware.com.au)