On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 7:28 AM Alexander Sosedkin <asosed...@redhat.com> 
> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 12:34 PM Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 5:42 AM Alexander Sosedkin <asosed...@redhat.com> 
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 12:19 AM Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Once upon a time, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanz...@redhat.com> said:
> > > > > > > On Wed, May 28 2025 at 03:19:49 PM -05:00:00, Chris Adams
> > > > > > > <li...@cmadams.net> wrote:
> > > > > > > >So it's been another month and this still isn't resolved.  I know
> > > > > > > >people
> > > > > > > >on the Fedora side have been trying (don't want to complain about
> > > > > > > >effort).  But if Fedora can't reliably get timely updates to a 
> > > > > > > >package
> > > > > > > >that has high security implications, it should NOT be enabled by
> > > > > > > >default, or even shipped by Fedora at all.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Well you're not wrong. The risk level here is considerable.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > But without this package, users can't play videos, and there's
> > > > > > > nothing we can do about that other than point to RPM Fusion and 
> > > > > > > hope
> > > > > > > they can figure out how to get what they need from there, which is
> > > > > > > not easy. So the consequences of dropping it are also 
> > > > > > > considerable.
> > > > > > > Rock and hard place and all that.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This package is for playing one particular encoding of videos (and 
> > > > > > only
> > > > > > certain profiles of that encoding from what I understand).  There's 
> > > > > > also
> > > > > > nothing preventing Fedora from pointing users to Cisco's site to get
> > > > > > their provided binaries.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > There are always decisions between security and convenience, and 
> > > > > > Fedora
> > > > > > has typically gone for security (e.g. things like continually 
> > > > > > raising
> > > > > > the crypto policies).  Leaving desktop users open to a high-rated 
> > > > > > CVE
> > > > > > for three months (and counting), in the name of convenience, is 
> > > > > > rather
> > > > > > bad IMHO.
> > > > >
> > > > > Honestly, we don't really push for security like that. We have
> > > > > generally provided optionality, but that doesn't mean we want security
> > > > > to outweigh our community and usability.
> > > >
> > > > I wanna get that in writing from, let's say,
> > > >  somebody with write access to
> > > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/
> > > >
> > > > > The crypto policies is an example of the problems
> > > > > caused by pushing security above everything
> > > > > else, as we wound up with several releases in a row of the package
> > > > > manager being broken because RPM could no longer verify Google
> > > > > Chrome's GPG keys (among other things).
> > > >
> > > > That's not how I remember things, like, at all.
> > > > Which *released* versions did the change ship in?
> > > > FeSCO said to revert for F38 (https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2960), we 
> > > > did.
> > > > That particular security issue stays unfixed to date.
> > > > Was there more to it that I don't remember?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Yes. The revert didn't apply to anyone who had installed or upgraded
> > > during the timeframe it was active, so everyone who didn't manually
> > > set it back has a broken package manager.
> >
> > What? How? I'd like more details on how that's possible.
> >
>
> Well, my Lenovo laptop running Fedora Workstation is affected, so I
> know it happens. If you say it's not possible, then I have no idea
> what's going on.

If it's still affected with the DEFAULT policy, please file a ticket.
That change should've been reverted way back in f38 beta,
and I've been under an impression it cannot possibly affect anyone.

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