[Koha-devel] Security with MySQL and PHP

[Paul POULAIN]

Pascale Nalon a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> As RespInfo for my library branch, I often receive mails for security 
> warning (like this : http://www.php-security.org/index.html) on MySQL DB 
> and PHP.
> What's your mind about these problems ?
> What're the risks with Koha ?

Hi Pascale,

1st of all, Koha is written in Perl, so PHP bugs don't concern us ;-)
2nd : mySQL problem could concern us, but only if mySQL was open to the 
rest of the world. Koha is a complete software, and the user don't have 
any direct access to the database. Only Koha features can be accessed.

Thus, I think our only goal is to have a secured Koha (= ie : no way to 
do things without the requested privilege)
A sample of an insecure Koha is given in my feb, 9th mail on this list.

We also have to split the risks in 3 kinds :
- security holes needing a librarian login
- security hole needing a login
- security hole needing no login at all.

someone will complete if i'm missing something, i'm not a security guru...
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