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This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday November 10 2019, @11:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the disable-ALL-unneeded-services-by-default dept.

upstart writes:

Submitted via IRC for carny

This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning

A major bug in Ubuntu 19.10 could be automatically sharing the contents of your Pictures, Video and Music folders with other users on the same network.

The problem is caused by Ubuntu’s new media sharing feature (powered [by] the Rygel media server) which is supposed to [be] disabled by default.

But scores of users running Ubuntu 19.10 in a non-GNOME Shell/Ubuntu session report that rygel autostarts on log in, with no warning or indication provided that it is running in the background.

As a result, the full contents of ~/Photos, ~/Videos and ~/Music folders are accessible on local area network, (LAN), i.e, available to anyone and anything else connected to the same Wi-Fi point.

And that’s not good if you live in a house with others, especially with a content discovery device like a smart tv or games console active at the same time you are.

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  • (Score: 2) by jasassin on Monday November 11 2019, @12:08AM (3 children)

    by jasassin (3566) <jasassin@gmail.com> on Monday November 11 2019, @12:08AM (#918749) Homepage Journal

    Why did they make DLNA when you can stream files from a SMB shared folder? I'm totally ignorant about this, and you people are the ones to ask.

    Thanks in advance for any info.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 11 2019, @12:13AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 11 2019, @12:13AM (#918751)

    A "content discovery device like a smart tv or games console" expects DLNA.

    • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 11 2019, @02:04AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 11 2019, @02:04AM (#918791)

      Shouldn't things like this make it impossible to prove willing copyright infringement?

      • (Score: 2) by https on Monday November 11 2019, @06:55AM

        by https (5248) on Monday November 11 2019, @06:55AM (#918844) Journal

        I'm not seeing it mentioned anywhere that write access is granted.

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