Re: [cowiki-dev] 'bad magic' slammed again

Phillip Steinbachs <[email protected]> Thu, 1 Sep 2005 18:13:22 -0400 (EDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.php.cowiki.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, Daniel T. Gorski wrote:

> FYI,
>
> The 'bad magic' bug slammed again today: <http://cowiki.org/> due the
> changes of another document by a guest user.
>

Since upgrading my four installations of coWiki to 0.3.4 (from a March 11 
0.4.0-cvs), I've been experiencing what I think is being refered to as 
this "bad magic" stuff.  I edit some pages, and a few days later they will 
have reverted to a much earlier version.  I can usually revert them back 
to the most current version via the history, but it is a very troubling 
problem.

I do not allow guest write access to any of my pages.  Is there perhaps a 
bug/security exploit of sorts that would allow a malicious guest to 
trigger this?

-phillip