Bug#909750: applications tries to write to /usr/* directories via libfontconfig1

Niels Thykier niels at thykier.net
Sat Apr 13 17:26:00 BST 2019


Vincas Dargis:
> On 2019-04-13 12:50, Niels Thykier wrote:
>> What is the status of this bug? AFAICT, we have *some* fixes from
>> upstream but Chris's mail implies that the bug is not completely fixed.
> 
> This bug disappeared from my logs long time ago, at least haven't seen
> any application reproducing it so far.

Interestingly, Chris (just Cc'ed) claims to have reproduced it about a
week ago with libfontconfig1:amd64 using strace and to my knowledge
libfontconfig1 hasn't changed for months in sid/buster.

@Chris: Just to confirm: Do you still see the issue?

Thanks,
~Niels



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