Security issue with .desktop files revisited

[Dave Cridland]

On Tue Mar 28 20:40:46 2006, Francois Gouget wrote:
> I was thinking more of something along the lines of 
> '#!/usr/bin/run_desktop_file'. Desktop files are equivalent to 
> shell scripts anyway. The only thing missing is that one cannot use 
> them transparently because exec() does not know what to do with 
> them. This limits their use to a few Freeesktop-aware applications. 
> Adding the above line and making _trusted_ desktop files executable 
> would fix this oversight.

Hmmm... Of course, "launching" a desktop file could be done by simply 
executing it, then, which makes quite a bit of sense.

Dave.
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