Am Sonntag, 9. Dezember 2018, 16:46:39 CET schrieb Philip Webb: > 181209 Marc Joliet wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 9. Dezember 2018, 11:35:16 CET schrieb Philip Webb: > >> What exactly are the "security reasons" ? > >> Do they apply to a single-user system ? -- if not, > >> why is the restrictive version of the policy file installed by default > >> rather than a warning at the end of the emerge output ? > > > > Good question. Checking the git log, the change was mode over two > > commits: > > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/? > > id=02765dfc333e578af9e3fd525fc0067dc47d6528 > > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/? > > id=df7afbda6b12a68578833225e694cee011b20342 > > The commit messages point to https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/332928/ > > and https://bugs.gentoo.org/664236, > > which basically explain in more detail what Mick summarized yesterday. > > It looks to me like an over-reaction to a fairly unlikely exploit. > You are protected if you don't download images from untrusted sites > or if you don't run Ghostscript as root (who would ? ).
A remote code execution vulnerability is problematic even when "merely" executed as your own user. I don't understand why you would think that it only matters when run as root. -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup
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