Known Issues of TWiki Production Release 01 Dec 2001

These are known issues of the TWikiRelease01Dec2001 (production version).

Security Alerts

• Security Alert: Secure webserver to prevent script execution of uploaded files (CVE-2006-3336)
  • Fix available in SecurityAlertSecureFileUploads, fixed in TWikiRelease04x00x04
• Security Alert: TWiki INCLUDE function allows DoS attack on itself
  • Fix available in SecurityAdvisoryDosAttackWithInclude and in TWikiRelease04x00x02
• Security Alert: TWiki history function allows arbitrary shell command execution
  • Fix available in SecurityAlertExecuteCommandsWithRev
• Security Alert: TWiki search function allows arbitrary shell command execution
  • Fix available in SecurityAlertExecuteCommandsWithSearch

• Note: See other TWikiSecurityAlerts

Major Issues

• CobaltRaqInstall - does not work on Cobalt Raq (due to cgiwrap, may affect other setups as well)
  • Fix available
• CookbookActivePerlTestenv - testenv does not work on ActivePerl on Windows
  • Fix available
• ChangePasswordOnWin2K - not working
  • Fix available
• NetSmtpFailsToConnect - Perl error message if SMTP host not available
  • Fix available

Minor Issues

• TWikiFormsDiffRendering: When you do a diff on a TWikiForms page, you get the raw METAFIELDS
• VerbatimExpandsVariables
  • Fix available
• NestedVerbatimTags
  • Fix available
• TWikiOnWindows - hard to install
  • Workaround - see WindowsInstallCookbook for easiest install
• ModPerl - problems in some environments, particularly Windows
  • Workaround - see WindowsModPerlInstallCookbook

Major Browser Issues

• BackFromPreviewLosesText: IE5 and IE6 only - novice users in particular may lose edits in some situations, due to an IE5 caching problem
  • Fix available, see BackFromPreviewLosesText. May recur occasionally despite this fix, see BackFromPreviewStillLosesText.
• RefreshEditPage: various browsers including Opera and IE5 - the second Edit in a session may use out-of-date text, losing the first set of edits without any warning
  • Fix available, see RefreshEditPage
• ViewAfterSaveCachesOldPage: the page generated by hitting Save button from Preview page appears to 'lose' the changes just made
  • Under investigation - this is mostly a caching problem that does not lose data, so try Ctrl/Refresh or Shift/Reload in your browser as a workaround.

Minor Browser Issues

• Support.BrowserIssues: Known browser issues with work arounds
• Support.BrowserFormattingIssues: Known browser formatting issues

Bug reports

It's also worth checking BugReports, which lets you track open, assigned and resolved bugs. Many bugs are quite rare, and of course there may already be a fix.

-- PeterThoeny - 04 Dec 2001
-- RichardDonkin - 15 Apr 2002