Secunia Security Advisory - Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Zope Object Database (ZODB), which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions and compromise a vulnerable system.
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TITLE:
Zope Object Database Two Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA36204
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/36204/
DESCRIPTION:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Zope Object Database
(ZODB), which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain
security restrictions and compromise a vulnerable system.
1) An unspecified error in the authentication protocol can be
exploited to bypass the authentication mechanism used by a ZODB ZEO
storage server.
2) An unspecified error can be exploited to execute arbitrary Python
code on affected ZODB ZEO storage servers.
The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 3.8.2.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 3.8.2.
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ZODB3/3.8.2
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-announce/2009-August/002220.html
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