Ubuntu and CentOS Are Undoing a GNOME Security Feature

guest · Aug 27, 2018

Ubuntu and CentOS Are Undoing a GNOME Security Feature
August 27, 2018
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...-centos-are-undoing-a-gnome-security-feature/

Current versions of Ubuntu and CentOS are disabling a security feature that was added to the GNOME desktop environment last year.

The feature's name is Bubblewrap, which is a sandbox environment that the GNOME Project added to secure GNOME's thumbnail parsers in July 2017, with the release of GNOME 3.26.

But there's a valid explanation for what Ubuntu is doing, according to Alex Murray, Ubuntu Security Tech Lead at Canonical.

Murray says the Ubuntu team opted to disable GNOME's Bubblewrap because they did not have the time and resources to audit the feature.
"It's easy to criticise but the reality is that to ship a high-quality distro all packages promoted to [Ubuntu main] have to go through a thorough review process which takes time," Murray added.
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