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regarding mozilla-firebird: parse mailcap properly
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Package: mozilla-firebird
Version: 0.7-6
Severity: wishlist
Firebird seems to be very half-assed about using mailcap entries -- it
will use the program name but nothing else, always putting the
filename as the first argument. "man mailcap" says nothing about this
interpretation. For example, this line from bittorrent in /etc/mailcap:
application/x-bittorrent; /usr/bin/btdownloadgui --responsefile '%s'; test=test
-n "$DISPLAY"
causes mozilla-firebird to execute "/usr/bin/btdownloadgui <filename>"
rather than the specified command-line.
Since this, as far as I can tell, is an undocumented behavior, and it
is passing remotely-defined filenames to applications in a way not
specified by the system configuration files, it could also potentially
be a security issue, although I'll leave severity as wishlist for now.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux neurosis 2.6.2 #1 Fri Feb 6 01:18:00 EST 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages mozilla-firebird depends on:
ii fontconfig 2.2.1-13 generic font configuration library
ii libatk1.0-0 1.4.1-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfontconfig1 2.2.1-13 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:3.3.2-4 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.2.3-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.2.4-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libidl0 0.8.2-1 library for parsing CORBA IDL file
ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libpango1.0-0 1.2.5-2.1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.5.0-4 PNG library - runtime
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.2-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libxft2 2.1.2-5 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxrender1 0.8.3-5 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii psmisc 21.4-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii xlibs 4.2.1-12.1 X Window System client libraries
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1-3 compression library - runtime
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Version: 115.12.0esr-1+rm
src:iceweasel has been superseded by src:firefox-esr in version
45.0esr-1 in March 2016. Transitional packages to ease upgrades were
provided in the wheezy, jessie, stretch and buster releases. The
transitional packages have been removed finally before the bullseye
release in August 2021.
After regular security support for buster ended in August 2022 and LTS
support ended in June 2024, I'm closing the remaining bug reports now.
Andreas
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