Bug 178040

Summary: Opens browser window as r00t
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Michael A. Peters <mpeters>
Component: firestarterAssignee: Michael A. Peters <mpeters>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Removes launching of browser from help menu none

Description Michael A. Peters 2006-01-17 15:41:24 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060103 Fedora/1.5-4 Firefox/1.5

Description of problem:
When firestarter is running, it is running as root via consolehelper.
In the Help menu is a selection for online users manual.
If selected, it opens a browser window as the root user to an external website.

In the event that there is a browser exploit and the external website is hacked, this could result in a compromise.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. launch firestarter
2. Go to help menu
3. Choose Online Users' Manual
  

Actual Results:  Opens an external website as the root user

Expected Results:  Launched web documentation for applications that run as root should be on the local machine.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Michael A. Peters 2006-01-17 15:46:15 UTC 
It would actually be better to not have it open a browser window at all.
Comment 2 Michael A. Peters 2006-01-17 16:13:16 UTC 
Created attachment 123303 [details]
Removes launching of browser from help menu