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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#37744: Per-user profile directory hijack (CVE-2019-17365 for Nix)
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 16:36:30 +0200
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To: Bengt Richter <bokr@bokr.com>
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Bengt Richter <bokr@bokr.com> skribis:

> On +2019-10-17 22:25:58 +0200, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote:

[...]

>> > Imperialist nitpick: why list the foreigners first?  :-)
>> >
>> > Anti-imperialist nitpick: reversing the two allows using =E2=80=98other
>> > distributions=E2=80=99 instead of =E2=80=98foreign=E2=80=99 which alwa=
ys sounds a bit
>> > dismissive to my ears.
>> >
>> > End nitpick.
>>=20
>> That makes sense to me; I=E2=80=99m not satisfied with =E2=80=9Cforeign=
=E2=80=9D either (I think
>> the inspiration came from FFIs, but still).  Maybe =E2=80=9Cfellow distr=
os=E2=80=9D?
>> :-)
>
> Is not the important distinction whether the "foreign distro" can be gene=
rated
> with pure guix libre components using a pure guix tool chain vs not?

=E2=80=9CForeign distro=E2=80=9D designates any distro other than Guix Syst=
em.  From a
technical viewpoint, it=E2=80=99s sometimes useful to be able to make that
distinction.

HTH,
Ludo=E2=80=99.