Updated Zope packages are available for Debian GNU/Linux

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 490-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
April 17th, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : zope
Vulnerability : arbitrary code execution
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2002-0688

A vulnerability has been discovered in the index support of the ZCatalog plug-in in Zope, an open source web application server. A flaw in the security settings of ZCatalog allows anonymous users to call arbitrary methods of catalog indexes. The vulnerability also allows untrusted code to do the same.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.5.1-1woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.0-0.1 and higher.



We recommend that you upgrade your zope package.


Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

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


Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zope/zope_2.5.1-1woody1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 684 bae9669b048bb73ff0fb4de1cba378d4
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zope/zope_2.5.1-1woody1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 88172 d8461358bc98af430ed32dd89a45dbcb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zope/zope_2.5.1.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 2165141 65d502b2acf986693576decad6b837cf

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zope/zope_2.5.1-1woody1_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 2236994 a0eb7df5046ae357d760d18ef8a2619e

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zope/zope_2.5.1-1woody1_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 2148088 dba70d7c78d850557783603038bc9947

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zope/zope_2.5.1-1woody1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 2130316 5172bd775bcd0ae107242525cf67b443

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zope/zope_2.5.1-1woody1_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 2388054 51c1ad0503162c4f0e152f233a45b3ca

HP Precision architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zope/zope_2.5.1-1woody1_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 2240312 bbac2d795c157069d27e63ffaf0f3b5c

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zope/zope_2.5.1-1woody1_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 2133690 1662a0ece415a56d4e25ad6f31576b9f

Big endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zope/zope_2.5.1-1woody1_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 2172370 5f127d8ac54046e75c6ab9bbfe9224c1

Little endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zope/zope_2.5.1-1woody1_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 2170856 f57b6a66116df5b30f499f5e4cdab6aa

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zope/zope_2.5.1-1woody1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 2168352 2b66d671fe1cb86a84df066902c503d0

IBM S/390 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zope/zope_2.5.1-1woody1_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 2153234 97df94cbfc71001ce67d6f02e6dde798

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zope/zope_2.5.1-1woody1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 2212970 5a660d1befe3b8ba2be26439eb1d1b21


These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update.