Debian alert: insufficient protection for zope Image and File objects

Posted by dave on Dec 20, 2000 3:30 AM EDT
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A busy week for the Zope team: on Monday another security alert was released revealing a potential problem found by Peter Kelly. This problem involved incorrect protection of data updating for Image and File objects: any user with DTML editing privileges could update the File or Image object data directly.

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-007-1                   security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                         Wichert Akkerman
December 20, 2000
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Package        : zope
Problem type   : insufficient protection
Debian-specific: no

A busy week for the Zope team: on Monday another security alert was
released revealing a potential problem found by Peter Kelly. This
problem involved incorrect protection of data updating for Image and
File objects: any user with DTML editing privileges could update the
File or Image object data directly.

This has been fixed in version 2.1.6-5.4 by including the 2000-12-19
hotfix, and we 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_2.1.6-5.4.diff.gz
      MD5 checksum: 85351d9b245c11f4ed7d95d26342f8f0
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/zope_2.1.6-5.4.dsc
      MD5 checksum: c1e9b237ec2efa4a94a83e260c4dd550
    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_2.1.6-5.4_alpha.deb
      MD5 checksum: 28f2b7e5a8d4a90587f38d1d62469d9b

  ARM architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/zope_2.1.6-5.4_arm.deb
      MD5 checksum: 8fa39ea6aee3f0359a4dc128815da423

  Intel ia32 architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/zope_2.1.6-5.4_i386.deb
      MD5 checksum: 0107b0c7104d3cb97db6f9afc18e2005

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/zope_2.1.6-5.4_m68k.deb
      MD5 checksum: f5f30733f030880ccb22e323f96d4628

  PowerPC architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/zope_2.1.6-5.4_powerpc.deb
      MD5 checksum: 116fb690e9681f4b8a8ce499b578f422

  Sun Sparc architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/zope_2.1.6-5.4_sparc.deb
      MD5 checksum: c96083f72ff1a554b1f6f94a90405f25

  These files will be moved into
  ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/*/binary-$arch/ soon.

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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