Re: [Security Audit] Package protection...

2002-10-15 Thread Glenn Nielsen
I agree that both of those packages should be protected. Why they are not included? org.apache.coyote is most likely missing because it is a relatively new package. org.apache.util may just have been missed. The code below is in both startup/Catalina.java and startup/CatalinaService.java I wil

Re: [Security Audit] Package protection...

2002-10-15 Thread Costin Manolache
IMO sealing is the best protection against insertion, and using URLClassLoader ( or making sure all the checks from URLClassLoader are reproduced ). I agree, this is a potential risk - as untrusted code may access package fields. So far I don't see any, but better to be sure. Costin Jean-Franc

[Security Audit] Package protection...

2002-10-15 Thread Jean-Francois Arcand
HI, is somebody aware why package org.apache.coyote.* and org.apache.tomcat.* are not protected againts package insertion/access in Catalina.java. What is the reasons? Actually, classes are not available to a Webapp (the Classloader is taking care of it) but when Tomcat is embedded in an app