wisha@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoMalicious KDE theme can wipe out all your datawww.reddit.comexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/13397700 Malicious KDE theme can wipe out all your data Or is it just buggy?
minus-squarejherazob@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoOn the Reddit thread people, at least one of them tagged as a KDE dev, mentions that widgets NEED to be able to run arbitrary code. I am absolutely baffled by this.
minus-squareMichal@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoAren’t widgets pieces of software? Of course they have to run code. But they need to be isolated, or at the very least not have sudo access.
On the Reddit thread people, at least one of them tagged as a KDE dev, mentions that widgets NEED to be able to run arbitrary code. I am absolutely baffled by this.
Aren’t widgets pieces of software? Of course they have to run code. But they need to be isolated, or at the very least not have sudo access.