Re: [PMH] Re: [Nautilus-list] Idea for Nautilus and GMC.

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel ximian com>]

> what if someone distributes a malicious elf/a.out binary as
> foo-1.5-2.i386.rpm the user will open the file with gmc/nautilus and
> instead of telling the user "no viewer capable of opening this file" (or
> whatever it says when someone runs a binary w/o the execute bit) it will
> set the execute bit and run the file. boom!

I have said this a couple gazillion of times.  But here it goes
gazillion plus one:

        He will get a warning that the program is about to be executed
        and that it lacks a security bit.

Miguel.