Re: [bug-buddy]: Custom scripts for your application

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

Brian Cameron wrote:
> Let's say some program generates a log file, and because this log file
> is useful for debugging the maintainer specifies that the logfile should
> be added to the bug report when it is created.  This sounds good, but
> what if there is some way that sensitive or private data can get into
> the log.  Then when the program crashes, this sensitive data gets put
> in a public forum for all to see (if they know where to look).
>   

#3  <signal handler called>
#4  0x00000005 in ?? ()
#5  0xb487cc71 in show_password_dialog (site=0x83ff2c0 "www.hotsexychicks.com", user=0x3777fef "bcameron")
#6  .....


Now, if it's not immediately obvious to anyone, *I just made that trace 
up*. It is not real.

But the nature of a stack trace is that absolutely anything could be 
leaked to bugzilla. This is why bug buddy makes it clear that you should 
review the data sent for personal or private information. Adding data 
from scripts to bug buddy has two ways it could go wrong - it can leak 
data by accident, or it can be malicious. In the former case, I'd argue 
for adding no more options because it's no more likely than leaking data 
in the stack trace, and that's the reason that we ask the user to review 
all data sent anyway. In the latter case, you've just installed 
malicious code on your machine and all bets are off (there are much 
easier ways to send data out of a system than via bug-buddy, anyway.....).

PS. Just for reference, people *do* leak private data onto bugzilla 
regardless.

--
Andrew