181209 Marc Joliet wrote: > Am Sonntag, 9. Dezember 2018, 11:35:16 CET schrieb Philip Webb: >> What exactly are the "security reasons" ? >> Do they apply to a single-user system ? -- if not, >> why is the restrictive version of the policy file installed by default >> rather than a warning at the end of the emerge output ? > Good question. Checking the git log, the change was mode over two commits: > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/? > id=02765dfc333e578af9e3fd525fc0067dc47d6528 > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/? > id=df7afbda6b12a68578833225e694cee011b20342 > The commit messages point to https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/332928/ > and https://bugs.gentoo.org/664236, > which basically explain in more detail what Mick summarized yesterday.
It looks to me like an over-reaction to a fairly unlikely exploit. You are protected if you don't download images from untrusted sites or if you don't run Ghostscript as root (who would ? ). It's true that you can use 'img2pdf' instead, which is perhaps the solution. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
