Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 874665
CVE-2012-5498 conga (Plone): Partial denial of service through Collections functionality
Last modified: 2014-11-10 04:59:18 EST
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.
The CVE identifier of CVE-2012-5498 has been assigned to this issue: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/10/1
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.
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.
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