Debian Security Advisory: New versions of Zope fix vulnerabilities

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 26, 2001
From:   Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de>
Subject:        [SECURITY] [DSA 043-2] New versions of Zope fix vulnerabilities
Date:   26 Apr 2001 09:49:52 +0200


Debian Security Advisory DSA-043-2                       security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                               Martin Schulze
April 26, 2001

Packages : zope
Vulnerability : several
Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
Fixed version : zope 2.1.6-9

This is an addition to DSA 043-1 which fixes several
vulnerabilities in Zope. Something went wrong so it has to be
corrected. The previous security release 2.1.6-7 has two severe
problems: 1. zope 2.1.6-7 erronously included Hotfix 2000-10-02 (a
fix for a vulnerability, which does only affect Zope 2.2.0 and
later). The inclusion of this Hotfix completely broke the
authentification, which rendered zope 2.1.6-7 practically
unusable.

The Hotfix 2000-10-02 is removed in 2.1.6-9.

2. The Hotfix 2000-10-11 in zope 2.1.6-7 was non-functional,
leaving the package vulnerable to the possible exploit fixed by
this Hotfix:

Hotfix 2000-10-11 “ObjectManager subscripting”

The issue involves the fact that the ‘subscript notation’ that
can be used to access items of ObjectManagers (Folders) did not
correctly restrict return values to only actual sub items. This
made it possible to access names that should be private from DTML
(objects with names beginning with the underscore ‘_’ character).
This could allow DTML authors to see private implementation data
structures and in certain cases possibly call methods that they
shouldn’t have access to from DTML.

Hotfix 2000-10-11 is fixed in 2.1.6-9 and fixes this
vulnerability.

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.

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato


Potato was released for the alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and
sparc architectures.

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Source archives:


http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/zope_2.1.6-9.dsc

MD5 checksum: c89f61955e3c676dc241fa7de64e4962
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/zope_2.1.6-9.diff.gz

MD5 checksum: 14199de307df2b8c786e7bf0de5c7a5f
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_2.1.6-9_alpha.deb

MD5 checksum: 4bc3e45fecb9ba97e9636c4f18a29db6

ARM architecture:


http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/zope_2.1.6-9_arm.deb

MD5 checksum: 8bdafc04fb0a24f41e297bfd1e6ee669

Intel ia32 architecture:


http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/zope_2.1.6-9_i386.deb

MD5 checksum: ae4f9c9addd2cc22e05ecf2c1da09a14

Motorola 680×0 architecture:


http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/zope_2.1.6-9_m68k.deb

MD5 checksum: ea002a86ac1f57181b561ef41c2332c8

PowerPC architecture:


http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/zope_2.1.6-9_powerpc.deb

MD5 checksum: 315018ce263ff4f3c433a786bb738381

Sun Sparc architecture:


http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/zope_2.1.6-9_sparc.deb

MD5 checksum: 9cdfe687f3058f556222b7fa55503dc3

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/ .

Web Webster

Web Webster

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