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and subject line Bug#1030918: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #545243,
regarding no hashsum checks of downloaded content, thus allowing downloading
and installation of malicious content
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Package: googleearth-package
Severity: important
Hi.
I'm currently looking at Debian packages which download and install
files from the internet (as their main content) whether they check the
validity of these files.
Although this package does not directly install anything but just
creating a package,.... installing this package is still that what
nearly any user actually wants to do.
That's why I've marked this as important, and not just wishlist.
May I suggest the following:
1) Ship SHA512 sums of the downloaded contend with your package
(perhaps after you make some (at least rudimentary) checks for
malicious contents).
This should of course match the specific google-earch version
2) Check whether this matches with the sums of the downloaded files.
3) In case of mismatches, the user should at least be warned that this
is probably a security issue.
Even better... package create should fail in this case,.. and only
using a special parameter to make-googleearth-package should allow
package creation (e.g. --ignore-hashsum-mismatch or so)
Thanks and best wishes,
Chris.
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Version: 1.2.2+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package googleearth-package has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1030918
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.
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