Re: Blocker bugs for GNOME 2.14

From: "Guilherme de S. Pastore" <gpastore gnome org>
To: desktop-devel-list gnome org
Subject: Re: Blocker bugs for GNOME 2.14
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 10:59:05 -0200

Em Qua, 2006-01-11 �19:43 -0500, Ryan Lortie escreveu:
> #317312: [CAN-2005-0023] gnome-pty-helper writes arbitrary utmp records
> 
>   We have an open security advisory and nobody has even touched it.
>   Even though the results of this attack are minimal (faked log
>   files) this needs to be looked into and fixed ASAP.

Based on the further comments from the Debian Security Team on
http://bugs.debian.org/329156, I tend to say this is not a security
issue. Any opinions?

Cheers,

-- 
gpastore gnome org: Guilherme de S. Pastore
http://www.gnome.org/ * http://gnome-br.sf.net/

References:
- Blocker bugs for GNOME 2.14
  - From: Ryan Lortie

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