Bug 933164

Summary:	app-misc/tracker-miners: consider dropping or masking USE=gif due to problematic media-libs/giflib dependency
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Sam James <sam>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=916378
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
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Bug Blocks:	933163

Description Sam James archtester

2024-05-30 04:15:28 UTC

giflib appears to have a terrible security profile:
* bug 785664 	
* bug 851945
* bug 918539

In the latest upstream release, they indicated that they aren't interested in any sort of bug reports on invalid input.

Please consider, if appropriate, either dropping USE=gif support, package.use.masking it, or perhaps disabling it by default via package.use (given the desktop profiles enable USE=gif by default).

If this package is expected to only interact with trusted gifs or you feel it's critical to the functionality of this package, feel free to close as WONTFIX. Thanks.

If you're not sure, consider raising this with upstream of this package to see what they suggest.

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Perhaps in the context of bug #916378, upstream may want to drop use entirely.