[Bug 1051108] CVE-2013-7284 perl-PlRPC: pre-auth remote code execution

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Petr Pisar <ppisar at redhat.com> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Petr Pisar <ppisar at redhat.com> ---
(In reply to Vincent Danen from comment #2)
> The actual proposed patch to upstream is here:
> 
> *
> https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Ticket/Attachment/1293961/685696/0001-Security-
> notice-on-Storable-and-reply-attack.patch
> 
> Based on the discussion in bug #1030572, there is no real "fix" for this as
> it seems that Storable deserialization is exposed prior to password-based
> authentication (see how AcceptUser is called in the server code).
> 
> MITRE assigned CVE-2013-7284 to this issue.

Is amending the PlRPC documentation with this patch sufficient to close this
bug, or should we keep this open until a real fix in the code (extension of
Storable module and utilizing it in PlRPC) will be available?

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