Control: affects -1 msmtp On Tue, 2021-02-02 at 09:20:44 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Mon, 01 Feb 2021 at 19:19:41 -0500, Charles Malaheenee wrote: > > But I'm asking myself - is it only gnome-keyring affected or this > > "security hardening" could break other GNOME/MATE parts? > > The security hardening change affects programs that are linked to GLib, > and are either setuid or have elevated filesystem capabilities > (setcap(8)), which is rare. I suspect the only ones are likely to be > gnome-keyring and pkexec.
This also affects msmtp when using its Secret Service support. Its debugging output is not great by default (need to send a patch for that), but once trapping the GError from the libsecret calls, it mentions that it cannot spawn a message bus due to the binary being set-UID root. Regards, Guillem
