artswrapper defanged

Rik Hemsley rik at kde.org
Fri Jul 19 08:51:23 BST 2002


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#if Matthias Welwarsky
> What you _should_ have done is publish a security advice that tells
> people to remove the suid bit of artswrapper. This has the same
> effect as patching the feature away in the source: None. But it would
> have saved people a lot of breath.

There is already a security advisory, in fact, that's where I heard
about the exploit.

I have not heard that artswrapper has been fixed properly yet. We're
approaching another release. If I hadn't patched artswrapper, would the
next release have gone out with the exploit still open ?

Rik

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