Bug 874665 (CVE-2012-5498)

Summary:	CVE-2012-5498 conga (Plone): Partial denial of service through Collections functionality
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	cluster-maint, jonathansteffan, jpokorny, jrusnack, rmccabe, rsteiger
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OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	It was discovered that Plone, included as a part of luci, did not properly handle the processing of requests for certain collections. A remote attacker could use a specially crafted URL that, when processed, would lead to excessive I/O and/or cache resource consumption.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	956861
Bug Blocks:	874222

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2012-11-08 15:40:23 UTC

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] http://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/14
[2] http://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/

Relevant upstream HotFixes:
[3] http://plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20121106

From the OSS post:
[4] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/07/4

the queryCatalog.py change from upstream HotFix is relevant to this issue.

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-11-13 15:50:44 UTC

The CVE identifier of CVE-2012-5498 has been assigned to this issue:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/10/1

Comment 6 Vincent Danen 2014-06-26 21:45:51 UTC

This issue may affect the version of plone as shipped with EPEL5, however the latest version there is 3.1.6 (and the latest 3.x release is 3.3.5, which was released a year prior to this flaw being discovered).  Given the age of the EPEL5 package and its lack of support, we do not recommend anyone use it.

This issue does affect plone as provided with the conga package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Comment 7 Martin Prpič 2014-09-09 09:40:10 UTC

IssueDescription:

It was discovered that Plone, included as a part of luci, did not properly handle the processing of requests for certain collections. A remote attacker could use a specially crafted URL that, when processed, would lead to excessive I/O and/or cache resource consumption.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2014-09-16 05:30:27 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2014:1194 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1194.html