User Beware: The Fine Line Between Content And Code
hackaday.com
Everyone loves themes. Doesn’t matter if it’s a text editor or a smart display in the kitchen, we want to be able to easily customize its look and feel to our liking. When setting up a …
  • pastermil@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    8 months ago

    Haven’t heard anything like that. Doesn’t mean for sure it’s not there, but if it is we would’ve heard of it, considering how popular GNOME is.

      • pastermil@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        8 months ago

        In theory: yes.

        In practice: depends on how things are implemented

        The jump from v5 to v6 is quite a big one. It is understandable things can fall thru the cracks.

        Nevertheless, allowing themes (especially of unknown source) to execute arbitrary code is never a good idea.