Summary: | Wine creates a file association for .exe files | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Dima Ryazanov <dima> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Wine Maintainers <wine> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | trivial | CC: | m.debruijne |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | x86 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Dima Ryazanov
2006-01-04 13:54:59 UTC
(In reply to comment #0) > . This may seem convenient, but it is a security hole:it makes it easy to run an > arbitrary .exe, such as email attachments. Scratching my head about what harm can W32 .exe (even a virus) possibly do on Linux... :P (In reply to comment #0) > And no one would make /lib/ld-linux.so.2 a file association for Linux > binaries. this is a bogus example, that isnt how ELF's work anyways, should be fixed in all ebuilds |