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qtwebkit: Mark known vulnerable #201028

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@mweinelt mweinelt commented Nov 13, 2022 •
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The browser engine is based off an old Webkit version, receives no security backports, does no releases.

The WebKitGTK people have counted over 500 CVEs they fixed since 2016.

Adding known vulnerable to make people aware they're using a browser engine that is not up to todays standards and could very likely be easily compromised.

https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2017/02/08/an-update-on-webkit-security-updates/
qutebrowser/qutebrowser#4039 (comment)
https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2022/11/04/stop-using-qtwebkit/

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qtwebkit: Mark known vulnerable
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The browser engine is based off an old Webkit version, receives no
security backports, does no releases.

The WebKitGTK people have counted over 500 CVEs they fixed since 2016.

Adding known vulnerable to make people aware they're using a browser
engine that is not up to todays standards and could very likely be
easily compromised.

Projects are recomended to migrate to qtwebengine instead.

https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2017/02/08/an-update-on-webkit-security-updates/
qutebrowser/qutebrowser#4039 (comment)
https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2022/11/04/stop-using-qtwebkit/
@mweinelt mweinelt requested review from K900, risicle and a team November 13, 2022 13:41
@mweinelt mweinelt changed the title qtwebkit: Mark known verulnable qtwebkit: Mark known vulnerable Nov 13, 2022
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mweinelt commented Nov 13, 2022 •
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52 packages affected:

  • alkimia (†8.1.1)
  • apitrace (†7.1-572-g26966134)
  • apmplanner2 (†2.0.28)
  • brewtarget (†2.3.1)
  • calligra (†3.2.1)
  • cb2bib (†2.0.0)
  • fontmatrix (†0.6.0-qt5)
  • foxitreader (†2.4.4.0911)
  • goldendict (†2022-05-10)
  • kdev-php (†22.08.3)
  • kdev-python (†22.08.3)
  • kdevelop (†22.08.3)
  • kdevelop-with-plugins (†)
  • kdewebkit (†5.99.0)
  • kexi (†3.2.0)
  • kmymoney (†5.1.3)
  • kreport (†3.2.0)
  • lsd2dsl (†0.5.4)
  • mendeley (†1.19.5-stable_amd64)
  • minizinc-ide (†2.5.5)
  • mythtv (†31.0)
  • nixnote2 (†2.0.2)
  • notepadqq (†1.4.8)
  • odoo (†15.0.20220506)
  • omedit (†1.18.0)
  • omshell (†1.18.0)
  • openboard (†1.6.1)
  • openlp (†2.4.6)
  • openlp-full (†2.4.6)
  • openmodelica-combined (†)
  • openshot-qt (†2.6.1)
  • pixinsight (†1.8.9-1)
  • python3.10-PyQt5 (†5.15.7)
  • python3.10-scudcloud (†1.65)
  • python3.9-PyQt5 (†5.15.7)
  • qgis (†3.22.10)
  • qgis (†3.26.2)
  • qlandkartegt (†1.8.1)
  • qt-full (†5.12.10)
  • qt-full (†5.14.2)
  • qt-full (†5.15.7)
  • qtwebkit (†5.212.0-alpha4)
  • qtwebkit-plugins-unstable (†2017-01-25)
  • quiterss (†0.19.4)
  • rocs (†22.08.3)
  • sleepyhead (†1.0.0-beta-git)
  • smtube (†21.10.0)
  • subsurface (†5.0.2)
  • swift-im (†4.0.2)
  • teamviewer (†15.29.4)
  • trojita-unstable (†2022-08-22)
  • wkhtmltopdf (†0.12.6)

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K900 commented Nov 13, 2022

Our fork is somewhat more maintained, but still not particularly well maintained, definitely not on the same level as Chromium or others. Also, just checking the list of things that depend on it, the only thing that jumps out at me is kdevelop, and that can use qtwebengine so should probably just be switched over (it currently depends on both for some reason).

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K900 commented Nov 13, 2022

Also checked rocs, also builds just fine without it.

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K900 commented Nov 13, 2022

apitrace is another thing I might care about but ours is disturbingly outdated anyway. I'll look into it.

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K900 commented Nov 13, 2022

apitrace update here: #201032

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jian-lin commented Nov 13, 2022 •
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FYI, this fork of goldendict replaces qtwebkit with qtwebengine.

There is PR goldendict/goldendict#1542 to upstream.

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FYI, this fork of goldendict replaces qtwebkit with qtwebengine.

cc @gebner @astsmtl @sikmir

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ajs124 commented Nov 13, 2022

Does this PR count towards progress for #53079?

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K900 commented Nov 13, 2022

Well, it drops at least two packages, so I'd say yes.

@mweinelt mweinelt merged commit c099aa3 into NixOS:master Nov 19, 2022
@mweinelt mweinelt deleted the qtwebkit-vulnerable branch November 19, 2022 00:46
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gador commented Nov 19, 2022

teamviewer seems to be working fine without qtwebkit too

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Feel free to provide a follow-up PR!

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vcunat commented Nov 19, 2022

Some of the newly disappeared packages still have meta.maintainers, so those might want to know:

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vlinkz commented Nov 19, 2022

Yeah without that some qml parts of calamares break, but should be possible to pinpoint exactly which packages are needed instead. I'll look into it

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Looks like kmymoney is affected by this because it takes kdewebkit as an input. What should it be using instead? Upstream's dependency list does not specify any specific web engine, but CMakeLists.txt tries to find WebEngineWidgets and WebKitWidgets.

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alkimia: switch from qtwebkit to qtwebengine
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See PR NixOS#201028 and issue NixOS#53079
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das-g commented Nov 19, 2022

PR to switch kmymoney from qtwebkit to qtwebengine: #201953

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I believe pyqt5_with_qtwebkit is the one offending openshot.

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vlinkz commented Nov 20, 2022 •
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teamviewer: remove qtwebkit
b9a8eae 
due to NixOS#201028 and
the deprecation of qtwebkit teamviewer refuses to evaluate.

qtwebkit isn't needed for teamviewer and is therefore removed.

Signed-off-by: Florian Brandes <florian.brandes@posteo.de>
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vcunat commented Nov 20, 2022

Note that qtwebengine currently depends on long-vulnerable python2, so it would also get dropped "soon", e.g. by PR #201859

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K900 commented Nov 20, 2022

Arch has patches for building it with Python3, maybe we should yoink those: https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/tree/packages/qt5-webengine/trunk

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kmymoney: switch from kdewebkit to qtwebengine
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(to get rid of transitive dependency on qtwebkit)
See PR NixOS#201028 and issue NixOS#53079
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#202059

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Thanks everyone for helping clean up!

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teamviewer: remove qtwebkit
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due to #201028 and
the deprecation of qtwebkit teamviewer refuses to evaluate.

qtwebkit isn't needed for teamviewer and is therefore removed.

Signed-off-by: Florian Brandes <florian.brandes@posteo.de>
(cherry picked from commit b9a8eae)
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tobiasBora commented Jan 8, 2023 •
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I'm beaten by this bug when I put full, but qtbase is not enough to build the package (errors about UiTools). Is there a full-like package that only contains packages that build?

Edit: I ended up adding qttools, discovered using nix-locate. But still interested to here about a full that only contains valid packages.

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K900 commented Jan 8, 2023

The package you want is qttools in nativeBuildInputs.

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Ahah thanks, I come up to the same conclusion using nix-locate, so I guess full should not be used anymore? Should'nt we provide a full-like for quick development? Also, what's the difference between qtbas of qtdeclarative?

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K900 commented Jan 8, 2023

I'd say we should have never had a full-like. qtbase is QtCore and QtWidgets, qtdeclarative is, well, QtDeclarative.

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