REDHAT-BUG-874665

First published: Thu Nov 08 2012(Updated: )

A denial of service flaw was found in the way Plone, a user friendly and powerful content management system, performed processing of requests for certain collections. A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted URL that, when processed would lead to excessive I/O and / or cache resources consumption. References: [1] <a href="http://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/14">http://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/14</a> [2] <a href="http://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/">http://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/</a> Relevant upstream HotFixes: [3] <a href="http://plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20121106">http://plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20121106</a> From the OSS post: [4] <a href="http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/07/4">http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/07/4</a> the queryCatalog.py change from upstream HotFix is relevant to this issue.

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