Flatsonar

GNOME Disks

by The GNOME Project

Disk management utility for GNOME

Dangerous permissions Unverified publisher GPL-2.0+
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About

Disks provides an easy way to inspect, format, partition, and configure disks and block devices. Using Disks, you can view SMART data, manage devices, benchmark physical disks, and image USB sticks.

Permissions

4 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • full access to your entire file system
    --filesystem=host
  • unrestricted access to the session D-Bus (all your running apps)
    --socket=session-bus
  • unrestricted access to the system D-Bus (system services, hardware)
    --socket=system-bus
  • X11 display: X11 lets apps read input and windows of other apps
    --socket=x11
  • GPU acceleration
    --device=dri
  • sets environment variable DCONF_USER_CONFIG_DIR
    --env=DCONF_USER_CONFIG_DIR=.config/dconf
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland

Who publishes this

Nobody has confirmed that the publisher controls this app id. Flatsonar warns before installing.

  • https://github.com/pop-os/gnome-disk-utility also publishes this app id
    publisher:collision
  • packaged by github.com/tmaxgooroom, not by the org.gnome namespace owner; it does build the owner's code from https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-disk-utility.git
    publisher:namespace
  • git source tracks a moving branch: what gets built can change without the manifest changing (x5)
    source:unpinned
  • fetches from sources.redhat.com over unencrypted ftp: anyone on the path can swap the bytes (x3)
    source:insecure-url

Maintenance

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