On Tue, 24 Nov 2015 04:27:08 +0000 Mike Blumenkrantz
<michael.blumenkra...@gmail.com> said:

> On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 10:57 PM Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 20:47:24 +0000 Mike Blumenkrantz
> > <michael.blumenkra...@gmail.com> said:
> >
> > > Looking at the current list of reported bugs, there are no open tickets
> > > which can be considered as release blockers, nor have there been any such
> > > issues reported or handled over the past few weeks.
> > >
> > > If no one opens a ticket with a release blocking issue, I am expecting to
> > > execute this release either next week or the week after depending on my
> > > availability.
> >
> > one issue - dbus api's for e_remote.
> >
> > i think we should either remove most (except version check and the
> > filemanager
> > ones) or move them to msgbus module. the filemanager ones should be rate
> > limited.
> >
> > why? wayland - security. right now our dbus api allows someone to poke
> > into e
> > and do nasty things. in x11 this is "well DUH it's x11. what's new?" but
> > in the
> > wayland universe this is not good.
> >
> > so...
> >
> > 1. rate limit fileman dbus api's to mitigate them being a dos attack vector
> >    (i'm going to ignroe for now security issues eg in efm or image loaders
> > etc.
> > where loading a carefully crafted file will take advantage of a buffer
> > overflow
> > - i'm going to consider the overflow, if it is there, an existing hole, so
> > we
> > don't create a new one here)
> >
> 
> Trivial enough.

done.

> > 2. remove or move basically all the dbus control methods (remove or move to
> > msgbus module). mjaybe only leave version in core methods.
> >
> 
> Move to msgbus module. This is a useful featureset which is fine in the
> hands of a responsible user. The module disabled by default.

done.

> > 3. make changes to enlightenment_remote script accordingly.
> >
> 
> No changes should be necessary since all the methods and interfaces don't
> need to be renamed. These changes will, however, break the remote when the
> module is not loaded.

well if disabled entirely they should be removed. i have disabled restart and
shutdown - the dbsu methods exist, but will not work.

> > this should ensure e in wayland mode at least has no "pre built in backdoor
> > controls".
> 
> 
> > --
> > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" --------------
> > The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler)    ras...@rasterman.com
> >
> >
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