RE: Should not be this hard(why is this a security risk)

2002-12-19 Thread Randy Paries
That is what I needed ... Thanks all To follow this up, why is this a security risk? Do they want specific mapping for each servlet? Thanks -Original Message- From: PELOQUIN,JEFFREY (HP-Boise,ex1) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 9:54 AM To: 'Tomcat Users

RE: Should not be this hard(why is this a security risk)

2002-12-19 Thread Tim Moore
See these messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/announcements@jakarta.apache.org/msg00122.ht ml http://www.mail-archive.com/announcements@jakarta.apache.org/msg00128.ht ml -- Tim Moore / Blackboard Inc. / Software Engineer 1899 L Street, NW / 5th Floor / Washington, DC 20036 Phone 202-463-4860

RE: Should not be this hard(why is this a security risk)

2002-12-19 Thread Larry Meadors
These messages indicate that a fix is in the works: A new Tomcat 4.1.x release incorporating the fix to the invoker servlet will be made available shortly. Am I reading this correctly as saying the quick fix is to disable the invoker, but the long term fix is to change the invoker to make the

RE: Should not be this hard(why is this a security risk)

2002-12-19 Thread Tim Moore
-Original Message- From: Larry Meadors [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 12:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Should not be this hard(why is this a security risk) These messages indicate that a fix is in the works: A new Tomcat 4.1.x release

RE: Should not be this hard(why is this a security risk)

2002-12-19 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Tim Moore wrote: Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 12:48:37 -0500 From: Tim Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Tomcat Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Should not be this hard(why is this a security risk) -Original

Re: Should not be this hard(why is this a security risk)

2002-12-19 Thread Dodd Gatsos
Just a guess... Because someone could theoretically drop a servlet into your file system programmed to issue commands passed in as a parameter and execute them as root? - Original Message - From: Randy Paries [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Tomcat Users List' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: