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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200210-007
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PACKAGE : zope
SUMMARY : Incorrect handling of XML-RPC requests
DATE    : 2002-10-24 15:10 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote

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Zope (www.zope.org) will reveal the complete physical location where the 
server and its components are installed if it receives "incorrect" XML-RPC 
requests. 
In some cases it will reveal also information about the serves in the 
protected LAN (10.x.x.x for example) on which current server is relaying. 

More information is available at
http://collector.zope.org/Zope/359

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-www/zope-2.5.1 and earlier update their systems
as follows:

emerge rsync
emerge zope
emerge clean

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