Re: F24 GStreamer zero day

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On 29 November 2016 at 16:24, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 09:39:03AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> On 11/23/2016 02:15 AM, Sérgio Basto wrote:
>> >On Ter, 2016-11-22 at 18:57 -0600, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
>> >>Hi,
>> >>
>> >>Is anybody working on fixing [1]?
>> >>
>> >>The exploit is a little impractical in that it only works if you have
>> >>not updated any F24 base packages except GStreamer, but we should
>> >>still
>> >>fix it. I don't see any GStreamer updates in bodhi yet.
>> >
>> >for gstreamer
>> >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1395128
>> >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1395768
>> >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1397064
>> >
>> >for gstreamer1
>> >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1397065
>> >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1395769
>> >
>> >but no commits in scm yet
>>
>> What about the larger picture?  Can tracker be made optional again
>> for the GNOME desktop?
>
> I have this in my .bashrc:
>
> # Kill with fire.
> killall -9 -r tracker-.* >& /dev/null
>
> Seems to be the only way to permanently disable it that I have found
> (I'm not using GNOME).
>
> Rich.

On F25 (not sure about older releases), on can mask the tracker
systemd user service(s):
# cd /etc/systemd/user/
# for i in $(rpm -ql tracker | grep systemd.*.service); do ln -s
/dev/null $(basename $i); done

the tracker processes won't get started the next time you log in.

-- 
Ahmad Samir
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