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[DSA490] DSA-490-1 zope

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-490-1 zope

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

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 permits anonymous users to
call arbitrary methods of catalog indexes. The vulnerability also
permits 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.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-490
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID: 5812

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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