[petrilli@digicool.com: [Zope] SECURITY ALERT]

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> Subject: [Zope] SECURITY ALERT
> From: Christopher Petrilli <petrilli_at_digicool.com>
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> Ok, now that we've got your attention...
>
> Thanks to Kevin Littlejohn's sleuthing, a sizable problem in the security
> machinery in DTML has been brought to our attention and resolved. Without
> delving too deeply into the obtuseness of the problem, let me first say that
> this is 1) very critical, 2) has an urgent fix.
>
> This problem is of most concern to anyone who opens their Zope site up to
> the general public (a'la zope.org) as it could allow "anonymous" people to
> do things which are most definitely not allowed. Unfortunately it was
> introduced many releases ago, but to our knowledge this is the first time
> anyone has discovered this problem.
>
> Fixes are contained in the CVS repository as well as:
>
> Zope 2.1.2 http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.1.2/
> Patch to 1.10.3 http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.1.2/1104_patch.html
>
> It is important to note that the patch to 1.10.3 has some performance impact
> on users of this release. Unfortunately, we are no longer able to provide
> equal levels of support for users of 1.x and 2.x implementations of Zope.
> If there are reasons that your site is unable to transition to 2.x, please
> let us know so that we can work to resolve them in future releases so that
> we can finally retire the old 1.x line of code.
>
> If you have any questions regarding the impact to your site of the changes,
> please send them to support_at_digicool.com
>
> Chris
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