On Fri, 11 May 2001, Bip Thelin wrote:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 
> > craigmcc    01/05/11 16:20:12
> > 
> >   Modified:    catalina/src/share/org/apache/catalina/core
> >                         LocalStrings.properties StandardContextMapper.java
> >   Log:
> >   Return error 400 if the user uses invalid characters (including %00 and
> >   %7f) in a URI.  This fixes a security vulnerability, present in 4.0-b4,
> >   that exposes JSP source code when you request:
> > 
> >     http://localhost:8080/examples/jsp/num/numguess.jsp%00
> >
> > [...]
> 
> Shouldn't we post a security "hotfix" or cut a new beta release? This seems
> like a pretty major security flaw.

We will ... but this is not the only problem.  I pulled the downloadable
directory for beta 4.

> 
>       ..bip
> 

Craig


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