[Zope-dev] About Zope Security (was: Zope - SecurityFocus Newsletter #232)

2004-01-23 Thread Dario Lopez-Kästen
Chris Withers wrote: Hi, Can anyone shed light on all of these? I know about some of them, but this is quite a disturbingly long list... What is the current status of these issues? I am running a rather larges site with sensitive personal data. The decision to use Python/Zope instead of Java/u

Re: [Zope-dev] About Zope Security (was: Zope - SecurityFocus Newsletter #232)

2004-01-23 Thread Casey Duncan
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 12:17:38 +0100 Dario Lopez-Kästen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Withers wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Can anyone shed light on all of these? I know about some of them, > > but this is quite a disturbingly long list... > > What is the current status of these issues? I am runn

[Zope-dev] cPickleCache endless loop...

2004-01-23 Thread Mario Lorenz
Hello, we have spent most of the day tracking down obscure hangs of Zope (2.6.4rc1) under python2.1.3 on a RHEL3 machine. The problem seems to be a logic flaw somewhere related to the cPickleCache, when using a destructor in a Zope object that accesses itself. In our case(shortened to the offend

Re: [Zope-dev] cPickleCache endless loop...

2004-01-23 Thread Chris McDonough
Defining __del__ on a persistent object has unknown effects, FWIW. A persistent object's __del__ method may be called many times during its lifetime. See http://zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/FrontPage/guide/node3.html#SECTION00036 for more info. - C On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 09:55, Mario Lor

RE: [Zope-dev] cPickleCache endless loop...

2004-01-23 Thread Tim Peters
[Mario Lorenz] > we have spent most of the day tracking down obscure > hangs of Zope (2.6.4rc1) under python2.1.3 on a RHEL3 > machine. Based on what you say next, it sure sounds like this isn't unique to 2.6.4rc1. Did the same code "work" under some previous release? The infinite loop appears t

Re: [Zope-dev] cPickleCache endless loop...

2004-01-23 Thread Jeremy Hylton
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:31:59 -0500 Chris McDonough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Defining __del__ on a persistent object has unknown > effects, FWIW. A > persistent object's __del__ method may be called many > times during its > lifetime. See > http://zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/FrontPage/guide/node3.htm

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Resolved security-related collector issues for the public?

2004-01-23 Thread Dieter Maurer
Maik Jablonski wrote at 2004-1-21 23:42 +0100: > ... >If we don't have a easy-to-install-security-fix for such people (or a so >called "stable" release, which works out of the box) we should a little >bit cautious about releasing exploits. That's my point... Almost all the issues covered by Zope

Re: [Zope-dev] Resolved security-related collector issues for the public?

2004-01-23 Thread Dieter Maurer
Maik Jablonski wrote at 2004-1-21 21:20 +0100: > ... >My proposal: Can we have a delay for making security-related fixes public? >Just a month or two or so... -1 Most of the potential exploits have rather strict requirements (such as creation of executable content by untrusted users). Thus, few i

RE: [Zope-dev] Re: RFC: backward compatibility of ps bindingsRESOLUTION

2004-01-23 Thread Dieter Maurer
Brian Lloyd wrote at 2004-1-22 10:11 -0500: >> I did check with a fresh 2.6 xx >> A DCWorkflow script that was not not called with the version from a few >> hours ago is now called but produces the following traceback >> >> This happens when the container binding is set to "container" and also >

Re: [Zope-dev] cPickleCache endless loop...

2004-01-23 Thread Paul Winkler
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 12:08:27PM -0500, Tim Peters wrote: > > def __del__(self): > > print "About to destroy: ", self.id I don't know what your intention is there, but fwiw, if what you're *really* interested in is the object being marked for deletion in the ZODB, you can use: def man

[Zope-dev] Re: RFC: backward compatibility of ps bindingsRESOLUTION

2004-01-23 Thread Tres Seaver
Dieter Maurer wrote: Brian Lloyd wrote at 2004-1-22 10:11 -0500: I did check with a fresh 2.6 xx A DCWorkflow script that was not not called with the version from a few hours ago is now called but produces the following traceback This happens when the container binding is set to "container" and

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: 2.7rc1 - Unauthorized: You are not allowed to access '' in this context

2004-01-23 Thread Stuart Bishop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/01/2004, at 12:54 PM, Stuart Bishop wrote: I think I've tracked down a minimal example, the trigger being my use of __allow_access_to_unprotected_subobjects__ = None. I'm thinking this recent change is incompatible if a parent object tightens sec