Re: Mozilla plugins packaging [Re: SELinuxDenyPtrace: Write, compile, run, but don't debug applications?]

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On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Jan Kratochvil
<jan.kratochvil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 19:02:31 +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
>> I like the idea to disallow this for say firefox plugins or httpd cgi
>> scripts,
>
> Wouldn't it be better to package Mozilla plugins in Fedora so that they are
> trusted?

rpm packages do not magically fix security issues. A vulnerability in
a plugin can be exploited by an attacker regardless how the plugin got
installed. (rpm or not).
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