zope2.8 vulnerability

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2006-3458  

Zope did not deactivate the ‘raw’ command when exposing RestructuredText functionalities to untrusted users. A remote user with the privilege of editing Zope webpages with RestructuredText could exploit this to expose arbitrary files that can be read with the privileges of the Zope server.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

13 July 2006

zope2.8 vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

  • Ubuntu 5.10

Software Description

Details

Zope did not deactivate the ‘raw’ command when exposing RestructuredText functionalities to untrusted users. A remote user with the privilege of editing Zope webpages with RestructuredText could exploit this to expose arbitrary files that can be read with the privileges of the Zope server.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 5.10
zope2.8 - 2.8.1-5ubuntu0.2

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.

References