Bug 874657 – CVE-2012-5499 conga (Plone): Partial denial of service through internal function

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Bug 874657 - (CVE-2012-5499) CVE-2012-5499 conga (Plone): Partial denial of service through internal function

Summary:	CVE-2012-5499 conga (Plone): Partial denial of service through internal function

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2012-5499

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity low
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Assigned To:	Red Hat Product Security
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	956861
Blocks:	874222
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Reported:	2012-11-08 10:33 EST by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified:	2014-11-10 04:58 EST (History)
CC List:	6 users (show)

See Also:	CVE-2011-1948
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Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	It was discovered that Plone, included as a part of luci, did not properly handle the processing of very large values passed to an internal utility function. A remote attacker could use a specially crafted URL that, when processed, would lead to excessive memory consumption.
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Last Closed:	2014-11-07 01:06:21 EST
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2014:1194	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Moderate: conga security and bug fix update	2014-09-16 05:28:53 EDT

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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2012-11-08 10:33:10 EST

A denial of service flaw was found in the way Plone, a user friendly and powerful content management system, performed processing of very large values passed to an internal utility function being exposed on an URL. A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted URL that, when processed would lead to excessive memory consumption.

References:
[1] http://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/15
[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 python_scripts.py formatColumns() change from upstream HotFix is relevant to this issue.

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-11-13 10:49:19 EST

The CVE identifier of CVE-2012-5499 has been assigned to this issue:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/10/1

Comment 11 Vincent Danen 2014-06-26 17:41:58 EDT

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 12 Martin Prpič 2014-09-09 05:40:08 EDT

IssueDescription:

It was discovered that Plone, included as a part of luci, did not properly handle the processing of very large values passed to an internal utility function. A remote attacker could use a specially crafted URL that, when processed, would lead to excessive memory consumption.

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2014-09-16 01:30:24 EDT

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

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