Bug#860268: .desktop files can hide malware in Nautilus

[Donncha O'Cearbhaill]

Phil Wyett:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Please note that the debdiff I provided was essentially a raw backport for
>> testing and I thought it may have issues. It was never meant as a 'here it is,
>> all done' patch ready for submission as a stable update.
>>
>> I am a little busy at the moment, but if I can help here, I will.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Phil
>>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Has anyone looked at how Red Hat are approaching this issue? RHEL 7.4 is gnome
> 3.22 and using nautilus 3.22.3 I believe.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Phil
> 

The corresponding Red Hat bug is at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1442231. Unfortunately there
has not been any progress with fixing this issue in RHEL or Fedora 25
either.

Thanks for creating the original patch. I'm not experienced with Debian
packing, but I will try to test your patch later today.