[Zope] SECURITY: Hotfix 2002-04-15

Peter Bengtsson mail@peterbe.com
Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:56:16 +0200


This Hotfix "breaks" CallProfiler 1.4 on Zope 2.5.0 (don't know about the 
other Zope versions)

A solution?

On Monday 15 April 2002 22:23, Brian Lloyd wrote:
>   This hotfix addresses an important security issue that may affect
>   some users of Zope versions 2.0 through 2.5.1 b1.
>
>   The issue involves a vulnerability involving "through the web code"
>   inadvertently allowing an untrusted user to remotely shut down a
>   Zope server by allowing the user to inject special headers into the
>   response.  If you allow untrusted users to write "through the web"
>   code like Python Scripts, DTML Methods, or Page Templates, your Zope
>   server is vulnerable.
>
>   We highly recommend that any Zope site have this hotfix product
>   installed to mitigate the issue. Zope 2.5.1b2 and 2.4.4b2 as
>   well as subsequent Zope release versions will contain a fix for the
>   issue, at which time the hotfix can be removed.
>
>     http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/Hotfix_2002-04-15/README.txt
>
>
> http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/Hotfix_2002-04-15/Hotfix_2002-04-15.tgz
>
>
>
> Brian Lloyd        brian@zope.com
> V.P. Engineering   540.361.1716
> Zope Corporation   http://www.zope.com
>
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