[aerogear-dev] security updates

Matthias Wessendorf matzew at apache.org
Tue Apr 8 10:14:26 EDT 2014


On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Sebastien Blanc <scm.blanc at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org>wrote:
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>> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Erik Jan de Wit <edewit at redhat.com>wrote:
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>>> Hi,
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>>> The simplified plugin is using evaluateJavascript in favour of
>>> sendJavascript, but this method is only available in 4.4
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>> Ah! Thanks for clarification! But this, than, automatically means: the
>> Push-Plugin requires 4.4 ? That's a huge impact. We have to support way
>> older versions, w/ the plugin.
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>>> as this is a new method introduced by the chrome web view we can change
>>> this by using sendJavascript method again. Don't know if this will
>>> introduce security errors, but I guess not.
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>> That would be worth to investigate. Not only for security - also for
>> 'love' of older Android versions!
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> +9001, I would even say that this is quite critical and we should find a
> solution before we release any new version of the plugin.
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+1 IMO it's a must criteria to not rely on newer Android versions like 4.4
(or later)

-M


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>> Thanks for the details, Erik!
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>> -Matthias
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>>> I think the actual fix is not using the old web view.
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>>> Cheers,
>>>         Erik Jan
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