Re: F24 GStreamer zero day

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On Fri, 2016-11-25 at 01:46 +0100, Lars Seipel wrote:
> What does that mean, exactly? Does it pass the downloaded file to
> xdg-open or equivalent?

"or equivalent" -- it uses Gio and not xdg-open

>  Just because you clicked on a link on some
> website, no matter the file type and association involved? Seriously?

Actually there is a list of "safe" MIME types in Epiphany, and the file
is only opened if shared-mime-info thinks it's of a "safe" type. It
*should* be hard to exploit shared-mime-info, so that's fine... but the
safe list is pretty big and nobody has been maintaining it.

Michael
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