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Message #00199
[Bug 1197056] Re: SDK and cordova webview applications should not use ~/.local/share/*/.QtWebKit/ for their databases
** Also affects: ubuntu-html5-theme
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Branch linked: lp:~abreu-alexandre/ubuntu-html5-theme/fix-
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1197056
Title:
SDK and cordova webview applications should not use
~/.local/share/*/.QtWebKit/ for their databases
Status in Cordova Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in Ubuntu UI SDK for HTML5 Apps:
New
Status in Ubuntu UI Toolkit:
Fix Released
Status in “apparmor-easyprof-ubuntu” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Status in “cordova-ubuntu” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in “ubuntu-ui-toolkit” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in “apparmor-easyprof-ubuntu” source package in Saucy:
Fix Released
Status in “ubuntu-ui-toolkit” source package in Saucy:
Fix Released
Status in “apparmor-easyprof-ubuntu” source package in Trusty:
Triaged
Status in “cordova-ubuntu” source package in Trusty:
Confirmed
Status in “ubuntu-ui-toolkit” source package in Trusty:
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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