Re: Fedora 14 Alpha Can Still Ship on Time IF these bugs get attention TODAY

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Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:

> On 08/05/2010 12:59 PM, John Poelstra wrote:
>> 597858 [NEW - high - dwalsh@xxxxxxxxxx - --- -] "SELinux is preventing
>> firefox from making its memory writable and executable." crashes rawhide
>> firefox start
> 
> The update to fix this one out is here:
> 
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/selinux-policy-3.8.8-10.fc14

As much as I dislike SELinux (and would thus generally tend towards lax 
SELinux policies), allowing a browser (!!!) to bypass memory protection 
strikes me as an awfully bad idea. Those JavaScript JITs are a really bad 
security risk. :-(

        Kevin Kofler

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