@Dan: You were on my ignore list, which meant I never saw your exploit (I interact with launchpad via email). I only saw it when Jason mentioned it in a post of his. If I had seen it earlier, I would have attempted to fix it. See for instance my posts asking Jason for news on an updated exploit.
And for someone not trying to pick a fight, you certainly succeeded. "it's easier to do something properly from the beginning than to patch a broken implementation one exploit at a time." Now if only we had a working time travel machine. Given that in the now we have a broken implementation, our options are: 1) Try to fix it, one exploit at a time. 2) Re-write it from scratch. Since the only one volunteering to do any re-writing was me, I don't see how that would have improved matters at all. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/885027 Title: SUID Mount Helper has 5 Major Vulnerabilities To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/885027/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs