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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Bug#14253: kmail html security bug
From:       George Staikos <staikos () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-11-01 10:59:16
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On Wednesday 01 November 2000 05:33, Andreas Pour wrote:

> > > > So it is possible to exec programms which needn't arguments. E.g
> > > > "/sbin/halt" if I work with "root" were big shit.
> > >
> > > Nobody is supposed to run KDE as root.
>
> I truly don't understand this.  If that is so, why is there a kfm-su in
> kde 1.1.x?  And why is there kdesu?  And why are there control modules
> that only work as root?
>
> I understand that users should not run their entire session as root.
> But doesn't root get mail?  And how are ex-windowites to read mail w/out
> KMail -- they should learn to use mutt?  Why have KMail if you can't use
> it to read mail securely?
>
> I'm sorry, but that answer is a cop-out.  KMail will hopefully be fixed
> to not execute scripts; in fact there was a long discussion about this
> some months ago and I thought it had been fixed.

  That's why you have .forward.

   If you're in a hostile environment, don't log in [to kde] as root.  Use 
kdesu when necessary and that's it.  If you're ina  non-hostile environment, 
it doesn't matter because you wont' receive these evil emails anyways.

  [Hostile environment => data/code comes in from external and possibly 
untrusted sites]

-- 

George Staikos 

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