Fedora Legacy Test Update Notification: mailman

[Pavel Kankovsky]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Jim Popovitch wrote:

> Here is what Mailman 2.0 looked like (prior to CAN-2005-0202)
> Here is what Mailman 2.1.5 looked like (prior to CAN-2005-0202).

Afaik the semantics is the same i.e. 2.0 is affected as well.
(Try true_path('/.....///b').)

> Here is what Mailman developers themselves recommend as a fix 
> to the 2.1 series for CAN-2005-0202, in addition to saying that 
> 2.0.x is unaffected.

Personally, I'd prefer this fix because it does the right thing (it gets 
rid of unsafe path components) rather than doing some text substitution 
magic.

> Here is what is now in FedoraLegacy RH73 release 2.0.13-7
>        path = re.sub('\.+/+', '', path)

This is rather ugly but it should fix the problem too. re.sub is "regular
expression substitution". It finds all sequences of one or more dots and
one or more slashes and deletes them (replaces them with an empty string).
It is not possible to create any input such that the output of this
substitution would include "../".

--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
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