Hi all,

On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 11:12:17AM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 09:07:11AM +1100, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote:
> > On Fri, 2014-03-28 16:22:14 +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 09:01:53PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > >> Package: libplrpc-perl
> > >> Severity: grave
> > >> Version: 0.2020-2
> > >> Tags: security upstream
> > >> 
> > >> The PlRPC module uses Storable in an unsafe way, leading to a remote
> > >> code execution vulnerability (in both the client and the server).
> > >> 
> > >> Upstream bug report:
> > >> 
> > >> https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=90474
> > >> 
> > >> A fix (which is not yet available) requires a protocol change.  I
> > >> think we should remove the package from the distribution instead.
> > > 
> > > Anibal, what's the status? Do you agree with the removal?
> > 
> > Yes, I agree. I was waiting to get it fixed upstream.
> 
> Please file a removal bug against ftp.debian.org.

FTR, libdbi-perl which had a Suggests to libplrpc-perl now dropped
that Suggests and added the patch tfor documenting the security
problems:

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-perl/packages/libdbi-perl.git;a=commitdiff;h=001c753d2b739fa2a67ec4f15ad4e7f8ca91c3c1
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-perl/packages/libdbi-perl.git;a=commitdiff;h=2cd27ab51973e2fd11723a89079f3e3102e69032

Regards,
Salvatore


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