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Am Sonntag, 9. Dezember 2018, 16:46:39 CET schrieb Philip Webb: |
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> 181209 Marc Joliet wrote: |
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> > Am Sonntag, 9. Dezember 2018, 11:35:16 CET schrieb Philip Webb: |
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> >> What exactly are the "security reasons" ? |
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> >> Do they apply to a single-user system ? -- if not, |
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> >> why is the restrictive version of the policy file installed by default |
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> >> rather than a warning at the end of the emerge output ? |
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> > |
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> > Good question. Checking the git log, the change was mode over two |
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> > commits: |
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> > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/? |
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> > id=02765dfc333e578af9e3fd525fc0067dc47d6528 |
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> > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/? |
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> > id=df7afbda6b12a68578833225e694cee011b20342 |
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> > The commit messages point to https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/332928/ |
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> > and https://bugs.gentoo.org/664236, |
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> > which basically explain in more detail what Mick summarized yesterday. |
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> It looks to me like an over-reaction to a fairly unlikely exploit. |
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> You are protected if you don't download images from untrusted sites |
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> or if you don't run Ghostscript as root (who would ? ). |
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A remote code execution vulnerability is problematic even when "merely" |
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executed as your own user. I don't understand why you would think that it |
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only matters when run as root. |
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Marc Joliet |
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"People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we |
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don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup |
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