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[Florian Boucault <florian.boucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Changed in: ubuntu-ui-toolkit
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  SDK webview applications should not use ~/.local/share/*/.QtWebKit/
  for their databases

Status in Cordova Ubuntu:
  New
Status in Ubuntu UI Toolkit:
  Fix Released
Status in “apparmor-easyprof-ubuntu” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “qtdeclarative-opensource-src” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “ubuntu-ui-toolkit” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “apparmor-easyprof-ubuntu” source package in Saucy:
  Triaged
Status in “qtdeclarative-opensource-src” source package in Saucy:
  New
Status in “ubuntu-ui-toolkit” source package in Saucy:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Ubuntu SDK applications that use webkit webviews store webkit databases in places like this:
  ~/.local/share/Qt Project/QtQmlViewer/.QtWebKit/WebpageIcons.db
  ~/.local/share/Qt Project/QtQmlViewer/.QtWebKit/cookies.db

  This results in AppArmor rules like the following:
  owner "@{HOME}/.local/share/Qt Project/QtQmlViewer/.QtWebKit/WebpageIcons.db" rwk,
  owner "@{HOME}/.local/share/Qt Project/QtQmlViewer/.QtWebKit/cookies.db" rwk,

  But these rules are too lenient because this could disclose data to a
  malicious app and a malicious app could poison the databases.
  Therefore, these paths need to be made application specific.
  Specifically webbrowser-app should be adjusted to use
  $XDG_DATA_HOME/<app_pkgname> for webapps, where '<app_pkgname>' is the
  "name" field in the Click manifest (see bug #1197037 for details).

  The same bug affects cordova-ubuntu, but writes are to @{HOME}/.local/share/cordova-ubuntu-2.8/.QtWebKit resulting in these too-lenient rules:
    owner "@{HOME}/.local/share/cordova-ubuntu*/.QtWebKit/WebpageIcons.db" rwk,
    owner "@{HOME}/.local/share/cordova-ubuntu*/.QtWebKit/cookies.db" rwk,
    owner "@{HOME}/.local/share/cordova-ubuntu*/.QtWebKit/LocalStorage/"   r,
    owner "@{HOME}/.local/share/cordova-ubuntu*/.QtWebKit/LocalStorage/**" rwk,

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