Proposed mass prototypejs bug filing for multiple security issues

2009-10-18 Thread Michael S Gilbert
Hi, The prototypejs script has been found to be vulnerable to a couple security issues [0],[1]. This script is embedded in about 32 other packages and I would like to file bugs against all of those that are affected. Since this would probably be considered a mass filing, I am running it past -dev

Re: Packages that download/install unsecured files

2009-09-18 Thread Michael S Gilbert
On 9/18/09, Patrick Matthäi wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Michael S Gilbert schrieb: >> On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:26:38 +0200 Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: >>> Hi. >>> >>> Some time ago, I've wrote several bug repo

Re: Packages that download/install unsecured files

2009-09-17 Thread Michael S Gilbert
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:26:38 +0200 Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Hi. > > Some time ago, I've wrote several bug reports to packages, that download > files from some non-apt-secured sources of the web, and install them. i also started a similar discussion a while back, which was met with mixed

Re: Talk: Reflections of a bigtime Debian bug reporter

2009-09-15 Thread Michael S Gilbert
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:19:12 +0200 Julien Cristau wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 16:41:50 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > > > the answer to the real problem is education. if a user didn't submit > > sufficient details in their report, politely ask them for more. show > > them a guide for strac

Re: dash pulled on stable when APT::Default-Release is used

2009-07-29 Thread Michael S. Gilbert
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:20:02 +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote: > Michael S. Gilbert wrote: > >> Am Mittwoch, den 29.07.2009, 02:25 +0200 schrieb Vincent Danjean: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> Since a few days, on a stable machine (with stable, testing and

Re: dash pulled on stable when APT::Default-Release is used

2009-07-29 Thread Michael S. Gilbert
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:00:13 +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 29.07.2009, 02:25 +0200 schrieb Vincent Danjean: > > Hi, > > > > Since a few days, on a stable machine (with stable, testing and > > unstable sources for apt but APT::Default-Release set to "stable"), > > "apt-get dist-u

Re: Breaking /emul/ia32-linux for squeeze

2009-03-11 Thread Michael S. Gilbert
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:12:31 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 05:46:31PM +, Clint Adams wrote: > > It may be time to change packages installing files to > > /emul/ia32-linux (which violates the FHS) to use > > /usr/lib32 instead. > > /usr/lib32 isn't exactly FHS either, but

Re: Security Issue of .desktop files

2009-02-24 Thread Michael S. Gilbert
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:44:31 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > here is > > a .desktop file that looks like it is iceweasel, but really it > > downloads an essentially random file, but I could have made it do > > pretty much anything. > > Yes, tests may need to be narrowed. That should be part of

Re: Security Issue of .desktop files

2009-02-24 Thread Michael S. Gilbert
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:09:42 -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > > > So if a .desktop file appears in the user's Desktop without the x bit > > > set and the user clicks it, it won't get executed.. > > Not exactly. The “safe” .desktop file was in the link I pasted on > > another mail in the thread: > > So

Re: Security Issue of .desktop files

2009-02-24 Thread Michael S. Gilbert
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:32:57 -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > > By who? The Browser? Fix the browser? > > Please take a look at all the discussion in the bug reports, I don't > think we need to repeat all the argumentation here. I think Yves is saying that the launcher issue is (and always was) corre

Post-Lenny discussion on packages with external (potentially non-free) dependencies

2009-02-16 Thread Michael S. Gilbert
Dear All, First of all, congratulations on getting the Lenny release out the door! I understand that it was a lot of work, and you're probably looking forward to at least somewhat of a break. So I don't want to treat this problem with too much urgency (yet), but I would like to get a dialog goin