Re: [galaxy-dev] Galaxy Security Vulnerability

2014-08-05 Thread Dooley, Damion
, Damion Message: 7 Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 14:55:57 -0400 From: Nate Coraor n...@bx.psu.edu To: Galaxy Development galaxy-dev@lists.bx.psu.edu, galaxy-annou...@lists.bx.psu.edu Subject: [galaxy-dev] Galaxy Security Vulnerability Message-ID: d482333d-384e-49c8-8dd8-c752e4b0a...@bx.psu.edu

[galaxy-dev] Galaxy Security Vulnerability

2014-07-31 Thread Nate Coraor
A security vulnerability was recently discovered by Inge Alexander Raknes that would allow a malicious person to execute arbitrary code on a Galaxy server. The vulnerability was in a method that uses Python pickle functionality to decode state information from tool forms. Because pickles can be