Bug#613273: vinagre connecting to remote IP addresses

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Wed Feb 16 18:45:13 UTC 2011


Le dimanche 13 février 2011 à 12:25 -0800, Gary Koskenmaki a écrit : 
> Package: vinagre
> Version: 2.30.3-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> vinagre is phoning home upon being enabled.  It is connecting to IP
> addresses that resolve to .br domains.  What's with this?  I consider
> this to be a major security problem.

This looks like a real problem (only by analyzing it will we know
whether it is some stupidity or “a major security problem”) but you’ll
need to be more specific than that if you want it fixed.

Cheers,
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