Re: How not to deal with a vulnerability in your code

[Leon Kaiser <literalka () gmail com>]

Of course I couldn't resist!
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On Sun, 2011-11-06 at 12:49 +1100, Jeremy Visser wrote:

> On 05/11/2011, at 18:24, Leon Kaiser wrote:
> > The flagrant disregard for his userbase is disgusting! I just uninstalled calibre.
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/885027/comments/90
> > sudo apt-get remove calibre
>
> The comment and "patch" you posted shows you clearly did not read the comments in the bug report.
>
> Ubuntu has already had the bug fixed, because they use a safe udev-based hook. The vulnerability only applies to 
> those who have installed Calibre from source. So "apt-get remove calibre" is a pretty naïve comment to make, but you 
> couldn't resist the bashing, could you?
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> The reason why he's reinvented the wheel writing the insecure calibre-mount-helper daemon is because there is no 
> platform-agnostic solution for auto-mounting.
>
> Modern Linux distros need a udev hook, older ones need a HAL-based hook, BSD needs HAL, and who knows what everyone 
> else needs.
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