Bug#515104: nautilus: potential exploits via application launchers

2009-02-19 Thread Daniel Ruoso
I'd also argue that keeping track of all the points that can create a .desktop with the x bit set is certainly a much more secure way of handling this, for instance, the DnD code could check: Should the permissions be preserved on DnD? Is the origin file: * not a .desktop file? force umask

Bug#515104: nautilus: potential exploits via application launchers

2009-02-14 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 13 février 2009 à 10:29 -0500, Michael S. Gilbert a écrit : > as you have probably seen by now, there has been a lot of coverage > about the potential avenue for exploits via kde and gnome application > launchers (it looks like xfce is safe, for now) [1], [2], [3]. > > the core of the

Bug#515104: nautilus: potential exploits via application launchers

2009-02-13 Thread Michael S. Gilbert
Package: nautilus Version: 2.20-7 Severity: grave Tags: security as you have probably seen by now, there has been a lot of coverage about the potential avenue for exploits via kde and gnome application launchers (it looks like xfce is safe, for now) [1], [2], [3]. the core of the problem is that