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Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:39:57 +0200
From: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@...xchg8b.com>
To: Vincent Danen <vdanen@...hat.com>
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: note on gnome shell extensions
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 02:48:38PM -0600, Vincent Danen wrote:
> * [2012-09-08 18:14:10 -0600] Kurt Seifried wrote:
> SUSE has some interesting info in their bug:
>
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=779473#c4
>
> By the sounds of it, this should be harmless. Vincent Untz says that
> the browser plugin doesn't actually install the extensions, it's passed
> to another process via a dbus call to gnome-shell, which sends the uuid
> of the extension to the extensions.gnome.org web site in order to
> download the extension.
>
> See:
>
> http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/tree/js/ui/shellDBus.js#n305
> http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/tree/js/ui/extensionDownloader.js#n27
>
> which is:
>
> let message = Soup.form_request_new_from_hash('GET', REPOSITORY_URL_INFO, params);
>
> And REPOSITORY_URL_INFO is hardcoded earlier:
>
> const REPOSITORY_URL_BASE = 'https://extensions.gnome.org';
> const REPOSITORY_URL_DOWNLOAD = REPOSITORY_URL_BASE + '/download-extension/%s.shell-extension.zip';
> const REPOSITORY_URL_INFO = REPOSITORY_URL_BASE + '/extension-info/';
> const REPOSITORY_URL_UPDATE = REPOSITORY_URL_BASE + '/update-info/';
>
> I don't think this is something that can be exploited, based on the
> above.
Not sure I follow the logic, can't I just upload something malicious to
extensions.gnome.org and then force you to download it? I mean, I can
try it if you're not convinced it's possible.
They surely do not have a magical technique for determining if my code
is or can become malicious.
Tavis.
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