On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 6:49 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 12:26:54PM +0100, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote:
> > On 10/03/2022 11:55, Alex wrote:
> > > May I suggest to leave at least the telnet protocol in curl-minimal for
> > > debugging purposes.
> >
> > Telnet is an extremely vulnerable protocol. It must be disable.
> >
> > If you need it, you can always install libcurl-full.
>
> Nicely illustrating the key tension of the libcurl-minimal vs libcurl-full
> split.
>
> If you want to use SFTP which is secure, you have to install libcurl-full,
> which brings in support for the horribly insecure Telnet protocol and more,
> increasing the attack surface for every application using curl, unless
> they set CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS, which most don't :-(
>
> Everyone has their own conflicting idea of what is 'minimal'. There's
> no nice way to solve this problem in Fedora without curl upstream
> supporting dlopen modules per protoocol, allowing us to package each
> protocol independantly.
>

Has anyone asked upstream about that yet?



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