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Re: [Full-disclosure] How not to deal with a vulnerability in your code

On 05/11/2011, at 18:24, Leon Kaiser wrote:
> The flagrant disregard for his userbase is disgusting! I just uninstalled 
> calibre.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/885027/comments/90
> sudo apt-get remove calibre

The comment and "patch" you posted shows you clearly did not read the comments 
in the bug report.

Ubuntu has already had the bug fixed, because they use a safe udev-based hook. 
The vulnerability only applies to those who have installed Calibre from source. 
So "apt-get remove calibre" is a pretty naïve comment to make, but you couldn't 
resist the bashing, could you?

The reason why he's reinvented the wheel writing the insecure 
calibre-mount-helper daemon is because there is no platform-agnostic solution 
for auto-mounting.

Modern Linux distros need a udev hook, older ones need a HAL-based hook, BSD 
needs HAL, and who knows what everyone else needs.

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