Bug 1030578

Summary: perl-DBI: add warning about DBI::Proxy insecurity
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Florian Weimer <fweimer>
Component: perl-DBIAssignee: perl-maint-list
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 7.0CC: jprokes, jscotka, ppisar
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Patch
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Fixed In Version: perl-DBI-1.627-2.el7 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Cause: Reading DBD::Proxy or DBI::ProxyServer Perl module documentation. Consequence: User is not warned about possible security flaws in proxied DBD connections. Fix: DBD::Proxy and DBI::ProxyServer Perl modules documentation has been amended with a security warning about insecure RPC::PlClient and Storable modules. Result: User is notified about security risks when proxying DBD request over a network.
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Last Closed: 2014-06-12 08:24:53 UTC Type: Bug
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Documentation enhancement none

Description Florian Weimer 2013-11-14 17:40:38 UTC
DBI::Proxy and DBI::ProxyServer are implemented with PlRPC, which is unsafe due to its use of PlRPC and Storable (bug 1030547).

We should at least add a very prominent warning to the documentation if we really need to ship this.

Comment 2 Petr Pisar 2013-11-18 12:01:51 UTC
Created attachment 825568 [details]
Documentation enhancement

Proposed documentation enhancement has been posted to the upstream for a review.