Mono Package audit

Colin Walters walters at verbum.org
Thu Apr 10 20:36:38 UTC 2008


On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> wrote:

>  It extracts rpm contents only with "rpm2cpio | cpio", not tarballs etc within.

Oh, I see, right.

>  Not sure if running "rpmbuild -bp" would be considered a potential security
>  issue, and I'd rather not even try re-implementing what %setup does to get
>  around that (at least in upstream rpmlint; in Fedora it could use
>  rpmdev-extract for that).

It wouldn't be very hard to write a SELinux policy for this, but I
guess people would still want a DAC solution.

Well, I think we do need some program to run for automated checks on
sources.  If that can't be rpmlint, I guess a new one is in order?




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