Comment 13 for bug 647349
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| Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote Re: package software-center 2.0.7 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1. | #13 |
Hello Evan Peck. Thanks for your attachment and the script to fix this. Unfortunately it contains lines like:
sudo chmod a=rwx $pathusc
that will give all users write permissions to the application, this would potentially allow a malicious non-admin user on the system to add trojan code to software-center to steal e.g. authentication keys for purchases. This is why I deleted the attachment.
If you have more insight in the bug itself I would love to talk what we can do to fix this in a way that does not involve chmod a=rwx.