Bug#738554: libbluray-bdj security issues

2015-05-04 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Mon, 2015-05-04 at 07:42 +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: It should be handled on the application level. The library's job is to parse and execute that stuff, not user interaction. Well that's just the point.. I think this *is* a user decision. Do you want to execute foreign code? Nothing

Bug#738554: libbluray-bdj security issues

2015-05-03 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am Sonntag, den 03.05.2015, 02:12 +0200 schrieb Christoph Anton Mitterer: That would be the first jailing technology where a break-out is impossible. Sandboxes where much more people work upon than it's probably the case for libbluray-bdj are regularly hacked (e.g. Chromium, Firefox, etc.).

Bug#738554: libbluray-bdj security issues

2015-05-03 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Sun, 2015-05-03 at 09:16 +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: If we had a bug opened against every package which *by principle* could hold a security issue, we'd have a lot. Well as I've said... I guess one doesn't need to have much imagination that one can think that a system like BD-J may be

Bug#738554: libbluray-bdj security issues

2015-05-03 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am Sonntag, den 03.05.2015, 09:33 +0200 schrieb Christoph Anton Mitterer: I mean the best solution would probably be, that the library (respectively the using program) asks before actually executing BD-J. It should be handled on the application level. The library's job is to parse and execute

Processed: Re: Bug#738554: libbluray-bdj security issues

2015-05-02 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: reopen -1 Bug #738554 {Done: Sebastian Ramacher sramac...@debian.org} [libbluray-bdj] libbluray-bdj security issues 'reopen' may be inappropriate when a bug has been closed with a version; all fixed versions will be cleared, and you may need to re-add them. Bug

Bug#738554: libbluray-bdj security issues

2015-05-02 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Control: reopen -1 Hey Sebastian. On Sun, 2015-05-03 at 01:59 +0200, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: libbluray now implements a Security Manager for BD-J code. From my point of view, the addition of the SM fixes this general complaint. Phew.. I wouldn't think so. That would be the first jailing

Bug#738554: libbluray-bdj security issues

2014-02-10 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: libbluray-bdj Version: 1:0.5.0-2 Severity: normal Hi. AFAIU, BD-J allows BluRays to run some Java code for an extended experience... No even if that was sandboxed... we all know how problematic this is with respect to security and that Java has a really bad record in terms of that.