** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: gnome-control-center
  
  Nautilus normally uses gnome-thumbnail-font, to provide font previews. Eg:
  $ gconftool-2 -g /desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/application@x-font-ttf/enable
  true
  $ gconftool-2 -g /desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/application@x-font-ttf/command
  gnome-thumbnail-font %u %o
  
  If a flaw is discovered in a font library or Gnome and a user navigates
- to a directory that has a malicious font file, gnome-tumbnail-font could
- be used to execute arbitrary code, write out to files or leak
+ to a directory that has a malicious font file, gnome-thumbnail-font
+ could be used to execute arbitrary code, write out to files or leak
  information. Providing an apparmor profile for gnome-thumbnail-font
  would be a good step towards proactively protecting the user from this
  sort of attack.
  
- nautilus also use totem-video-thumbnail and evince-thumbnailer. evince-
- thumbnailer has an apparmor profile already. For images, nautilus uses
- gdk-pixbuf routines via gnome-desktop, but these can be altered to use
- evince-thumbnailer by installing schema files for these images.
+ The same can be said for other thumbnailers. Nautilus also uses totem-
+ video-thumbnail and evince-thumbnailer (evince-thumbnailer has an
+ apparmor profile already). For images, nautilus uses gdk-pixbuf routines
+ via gnome-desktop, but these can be altered to use evince-thumbnailer by
+ installing schema files for the various image mime-types and updating
+ gnome-desktop to not fallback to gdk-pixbuf on thumbnail script error.

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Title:
  gnome thumbnailers should have an apparmor profile

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