Re: Bug#692899: zope2.12: [CVE-2012-5485 to 5508] Multiple vectors corrected within 20121106 fix

Tres Seaver <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.zope.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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On 01/27/2013 08:49 AM, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 18:53:58 +0900, Arnaud Fontaine wrote:
> 
>> Tres Seaver <[email protected]> writes:
>> 
>>>> * CVE-2012-5505 (zope.traversing: atat.py) 
>>>> http://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/21
>>> 
>>> That "fix" is  also disputed: hiding the "default" view  from the
>>> '@@' name does not actually improve security  at all.  There is a
>>> Launchpad bug where  it is being  debated (#1079225), but  that
>>> bug is  still in "Private Security" mode.  The correct fix is to
>>> change the code of the multi-adapter to barf if published via a
>>> URL.
>> 
>> Any idea when this patch will be released? Thanks.
>> 
> Is there any news on that issue?

I still believe the report is in error:  we cannot hide default (unnamed)
views simply because an application might register one in error.
Any views which wants not to be called via URLs needs to handle that
directly:  registering a multiadapter for (IThing, None) *is* registering
a view.



Tres.
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