On 3/1/22 23:14, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2022-03-01 at 19:21 -0500, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: >> On 3/1/22 16:02, Jonathan Schleifer wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> It looks like Chromium on Fedora is not receiving timely updates. It >>> hasn't been updated in over a month and there were many bugs fixed >>> upstream. At the very least, Chromium on Fedora is vulnerable to the >>> following: >>> >>> CVE-2022-0452: Use after free in Safe Browsing. >>> CVE-2022-0453: Use after free in Reader Mode. >>> CVE-2022-0454: Heap buffer overflow in ANGLE. >>> CVE-2022-0455: Inappropriate implementation in Full Screen Mode. >>> CVE-2022-0456: Use after free in Web Search. >>> CVE-2022-0457: Type Confusion in V8. >>> CVE-2022-0458: Use after free in Thumbnail Tab Strip. >>> CVE-2022-0459 Use after free in Screen Capture. >>> CVE-2022-0603: Use after free in File Manager. >>> CVE-2022-0604: Heap buffer overflow in Tab Groups. >>> CVE-2022-0605: Use after free in Webstore API. >>> CVE-2022-0606: Use after free in ANGLE. >>> CVE-2022-0607: Use after free in GPU. >>> CVE-2022-0608: Integer overflow in Mojo. >>> CVE-2022-0609: Use after free in Animation. >>> >>> Google reports these as being actively exploited in the wild, which means: >>> >>> ** If you use Chromium on Fedora, stop using it NOW ** >>> >>> Can we fix this situation somehow? Browsers are the most critical thing >>> to get security updates as fast as possible. Having bugs unfixed for a >>> month that are exploited in the wild is *bad* and puts our users at >>> serious risk. >>> >>> RPMFusion seems to push timely updates - can we reuse that? Should users >>> be pointed towards RPMFusion instead in the meantime? >> >> What are the differences between the RPMFusion SRPM and the >> Fedora SRPM? > > There is no need to guess about this. You can read both spec files. > These are open projects. The Fedora spec is heavily commented, with > explanations of what all the patches etc. are for. > > Fedora spec: > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/chromium/blob/rawhide/f/chromium.spec > > RPMFusion spec: > https://github.com/rpmfusion/chromium-freeworld/blob/master/chromium-freeworld.spec > > As you can see, the Fedora spec is doing more work to fit in with the > letter and spirit of Fedora guidelines, especially around stopping > Chromium bundling and doing weird things to libraries. The RPMFusion > spec does some, but not as much. > > If Chromium didn't do so much messy stuff with libraries and > proprietary blobs that the package has to work around, I imagine > maintaining it would be much easier. I sure wouldn't want the job. Is trying to prevent Chromium from bundling libraries even worthwhile? I think the first priority should be to come up with a spec that (a) allows shipping new versions quickly and (b) doesn’t create any legal problems. The rest can come later. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)
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