Comment 9 for bug 848807

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Tres Seaver (tseaver) wrote : Re: [Bug 848807] Re: Anonymous arbitrary shell execution possible via URL

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On 09/22/2011 04:24 AM, Hanno Schlichting wrote:

> Tres, thanks a lot for the work!
>
> Since this is such a serious vulnerability, the Plone security team
> would like to hold of the hotfix release a bit and do a pre-
> announcement. So all vendors get a chance to plan and prepare for
> deploying the hotfix.

That is exactly the reason *not* to hold off -- we should be putting out
the hotfix and new releases ASAP, because of it seriousness.

> We'll do a pre-announcement of the upcoming patch, to be released on
> Tuesday October 4. And then we can handle the actual release of the
> code on that day. I can take care of the Zope-side of the hotfix
> release and also release proper new versions of Zope 2.12 and 2.13 at
> the same time.

You want to leave this unpatched for *two weeks*? That seem grossly
irresponsible to me: the Zope community *is* bigger than a set of
nervous Plone integrators, and deserves to get fixes for "zero day"
exploits out as soon as they are availble.

Tres.
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