Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.
** Information type changed from Private Security to Public ** Summary changed: - Trusty will not install downloaded drivers with bad MD5 sums. + Trusty will not install downloaded drivers with control files with incorrect owners -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to software-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1304666 Title: Trusty will not install downloaded drivers with control files with incorrect owners Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Trusty will not install downloaded drivers with bad MD5 sums even when told to do so. The Google Chrome package similarly will not install. This bug is the opposite of a security vulnerability; it is security overkill that turns the system into a boat anchor. Earlier verions of Trusty and all earlier Ubuntu releases would honor a user's request to the software center request to "ignore and install". Clicking this button produces the message "The installation or removal of a software package failed." This bug applies to the 14.04 daily build for 4/08 and a few earlier builds also. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: software-center 13.10-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-23.45-generic 3.13.8 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-23-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Tue Apr 8 15:49:13 2014 ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-08 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Daily amd64 (20140408) InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7 PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: software-center UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/1304666/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
