Update on progress [PATCH]

John Tapsell johnflux at gmail.com
Mon Feb 23 01:35:47 GMT 2009


2009/2/21 Michael Pyne <mpyne at purinchu.net>:
> On Saturday 21 February 2009, John Tapsell wrote:
>> In the screenshot, the text service 'mileage tracker' comes from the
>> untrusted .desktop file itself right? So couldn't the malicious
>> .desktop file put any service name? Such as "system. This is a vital
>> service - so you must click continue or risk breaking your system."
>
> Yes. Hmm, every part of the .desktop file is untrusted, including the
> filename. I wonder what makes sense to put instead, if anything. I'd rather
> not leave the dialog completely devoid of a clue as to what the service is.
> (We will have the Exec= line once I get the Details button to work)

True.  Maybe put the path that the file is in, and a sanitized
filename? (A-Za-z*) or somethingl.




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