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Plone "statusmessages" and "linkintegrity" Modules Code Execution Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA27530  
Release Date: 2007-11-06

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Plone 2.x
Plone 3.x

CVE reference:CVE-2007-5741 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Plone, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to errors within the "statusmessages" and "linkintegrity" modules, where unsafe network data is interpreted as python pickles. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary python code within the Zope/Plone process.

The vulnerabilities are reported in Plone 2.5 up to and including version 2.5.4 and Plone 3.0 up to and including version 3.0.2.

Solution:
Apply the hotfix.
http://plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20071106

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.

Original Advisory:
http://plone.org/about/security/advisories/cve-2007-5741



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