Re: today's high-publicity security issue

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On Fri, 2016-12-16 at 16:22 -0600, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-12-16 at 12:18 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > Can someone confirm that this update at least mitigates the issue
> > highlighted in the blog?
> 
> The blog post indicates that it also targets the totem thumbnailer and
> totem itself, so no, improving tracker is not sufficient here.

Doesn't it mitigate the completely drive-by attack via Chrome and
tracker metadata parsing, though? You can still exploit it, but not so
seamlessly...right?
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