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From: Robert Buchholz <rbu@g.o>
To: Christian Hoffmann <hoffie@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-php5/pecl-pdo*
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:25:39
Message-Id: 051BB832-CF66-42E9-A65B-04FB031DA7DE@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-php5/pecl-pdo* by Christian Hoffmann
1 Am 08.10.2007 um 10:05 schrieb Christian Hoffmann:
2
3 > On 2007-10-08 at 05:37 +0200, Robert Buchholz wrote:
4 >
5 >> On Thursday, 4. October 2007, Christian Hoffmann wrote:
6 >>> # Christian Hoffmann <hoffie@g.o> (04 Oct 2007)
7 >>> # Outdated (no releases since May 2006), buggy and possibly
8 >>> vulnerable
9 >>> # to security problems
10 >>
11 >> Anything security-related you know of or just a wild guess?
12 > Not exactly a wild guess, I just didn't want to make a statement
13 > on whether these are security problems or not:
14 > * INFILE LOCAL option handling vs. open_basedir or safe_mode
15 > * A crash inside pdo_pgsql on some non-well-formed SQL queries
16 > (both from php-5.2.4 ChangeLog)
17
18 Since the second is only locally invoked* DoS and the first an
19 ever-beloved workaround for the basedir restriction, we don't
20 need to say goodbye with a maskglsa.
21
22 Thanks,
23 Robert
24
25 * unless someone allows remote users to submit SQL queries... :-)
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