Debian alert: zope remote unauthorized access

Posted by dave on May 7, 2001 7:01 AM EDT
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A new Zope hotfix has been released which fixes a problem in ZClasses. The README for the 2001-05-01 hotfix describes the problem as `any user can visit a ZClass declaration and change the ZClass permission mappings for methods and other objects defined within the ZClass, possibly allowing for unauthorized access within the Zope instance.'

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-055-1                   security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                         Wichert Akkerman
May  7, 2001
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Package        : zope
Problem type   : remote unauthorized access 
Debian-specific: no

A new Zope hotfix has been released which fixes a problem in ZClasses.
The README for the 2001-05-01 hotfix describes the problem as `any user
can visit a ZClass declaration and change the ZClass permission mappings
for methods and other objects defined within the ZClass, possibly
allowing for unauthorized access within the Zope instance.'

This hotfix has been added in version 2.1.6-10, and we highly recommend
that you upgrade your zope package immediately.

wget url
        will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
        will install the referenced file.


Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
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  Potato was released for alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc.

  Source archives:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/zope_2.1.6-10.diff.gz
      MD5 checksum: b3fdfc267c5eb1ff8425563898c7cf40
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/zope_2.1.6-10.dsc
      MD5 checksum: c54e4354a0de8cd47a988541fd33cec9
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/zope_2.1.6.orig.tar.gz
      MD5 checksum: 6ec4320afd6925c24f9f1b5cd7c4d7c5

  Alpha architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/zope_2.1.6-10_alpha.deb
      MD5 checksum: 829a7766ee2b0610b15195e8f94e6c1c

  ARM architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/zope_2.1.6-10_arm.deb
      MD5 checksum: 7964eeffa5419e4c57a26118fa2d6168

  Intel ia32 architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/zope_2.1.6-10_i386.deb
      MD5 checksum: b47471e49ff7b6b90ed2aedafbf3d7cc

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/zope_2.1.6-10_m68k.deb
      MD5 checksum: 77ffbbdc5abd26b64ba807645eecc358

  PowerPC architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/zope_2.1.6-10_powerpc.deb
      MD5 checksum: 168dae24060cbc214d4b9e46fcbbc19e

  Sun Sparc architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/zope_2.1.6-10_sparc.deb
      MD5 checksum: eaebca293e5e597f6d9ec92744a07934

  These packages will be moved into the stable distribution on its next
  revision.

For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate
directory ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/ .

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apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

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