SOLVED Re: Rawhide - Calibre

[Frank Murphy]

On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 17:46:45 +0200
Lars Seipel <lars.seipel at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 09:03:05AM -0400, Scott Robbins wrote:
> > Are you using the rpm or the download from Calibre's site?  Note
> > that they do recommend one does not use a distro's version.
> 
> Did they fix the serious security problems in the upstream-provided
> packages? They used to install some exploitable helper program suid
> root. The Fedora package (and most other distros') stripped that
> binary and made Calibre use a more secure mechanism.
> 
>

bz created:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=986682

workaround for me, for now:
rm -f ~/.ICEauthority



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