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Am Sonntag, 9. Dezember 2018, 11:35:16 CET schrieb Philip Webb: |
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> 181208 Marc Joliet wrote: |
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> > This is mentioned in the emerge output when installing imagemagick. |
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> > From the 7.0.8.14 ebuild : |
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> > elog "For security reasons, a policy.xml file was installed in |
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> > /etc/ImageMagick-7" |
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> > elog "which will prevent the usage of the following coders by default:" |
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> > elog "" |
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> > elog " - PS" |
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> > elog " - PS2" |
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> > elog " - PS3" |
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> > elog " - EPS" |
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> > elog " - PDF" |
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> > elog " - XPS" |
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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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Good question. Checking the git log, the change was mode over two 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/ and |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/664236, which basically explain in more detail what |
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Mick already summarized yesterday. |
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Marc Joliet |
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