Re: Administrivia: List Compromised due to Mailman Vulnerability

[Steve Blass <sblass () asu edu>]

John Cartwright wrote:

> ...
>
> Subscriber addresses and passwords have been compromised.
d'0h!

> ...
>
> SLASH = '/'
>
> def true_path(path):
>    "Ensure that the path is safe by removing .."
>    parts = [x for x in path.split(SLASH) if x not in ('.', '..')]
>    return SLASH.join(parts)[1:]
>
>  
That's an improvement, but better is to extract and validate the tail of 
the path to your repository and then anchor the root where it belongs.

Fully disclosing that FD was compromised was a stand up thing to do 
though. Good job!

-
Steve

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