[Bug 183525] New: Make kde-open secure to be used in /etc/mailcap

[Manuel Reimer]

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183525

           Summary: Make kde-open secure to be used in /etc/mailcap
           Product: kde
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Slackware Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: manuel.spam at nurfuerspam.de


Version:            (using KDE 4.2.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Slackware Packages

As Firefox wants to be a "Gnome application", it most probably will never allow
users to easily open files from web in the user's preferred application. The
only way to tell firefox about some default applications, for distributors, is
the /etc/mailcap file. So it would be nice to be able to use kde-open there, to
link some MIME types to it and so to allow users to easily view files directly
from web. To be able to do this, without opening a security hole, kde-open
should be patched to not longer open executable files.

My attached patch will modify kde-open. Maybe it would be a better idea to
create a new binary "kde-view", but for a patch, which creates a new binary, I
would need some help by a experienced KDE developer...


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