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This title is pure sensationalism. The written piece says clearly "security vulnerabilities in the GStreamer multimedia framework. A combination of the Chrome b
by bigbugbag 10y ago
This title is pure sensationalism. The written piece says clearly "security vulnerabilities in the GStreamer multimedia framework. A combination of the Chrome browser and GNOME-based desktops creates a particularly scary vulnerability.". Somehow this very specific combination inflated to become Desktop Linux.
My default installation came with VLC, firefox and KDE. No gstreamer nor gnome installed, google products including Chrome are not welcome. Though I'm pretty sure manjaro is part of the Desktop Linux family.
Too bad this misrepresentation is hurting the message OP is trying to carry to the world. Then this message is hardly news, the guys at grsecurity have been at it for 15 years providing hardening security patches to the vanilla kernel.
- digi_owl 10y agoBecause some very big players are trying to conflate desktop Linux with Gnome+systemd...
- notalaser 10y agoBaloo, KDE's indexing engine is apparently hit by the same vulnerability that hits Tracker (except they didn't fix it, according to the article). Also, are you sure Firefox and none of the KDE applications are using gstreamer for the backend (e.g. for HTML5 videos)? I dislike this idea that the Linux desktop is all Gnome and systemd, too, but the situation is pretty disastrous. Things that have an X in them, from X11 to (especially...) XDG shouldn't be trusted too much...