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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