[Bug 39718] d3d9.dll trick for Fallout 3 no longer working in Steam

[wine-bugs at winehq.org]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39718

--- Comment #24 from Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to mactrix from comment #23)
> (In reply to Austin English from comment #22)
> 
> > I don't think you should be shipping binary dlls from the internet with a
> > Wine package.
> 
> Why? In terms of security reasons the same could be said for the Wine
> package itself, why should the Wine package be save? And what harm can a dll
> file do on a Mac?

Wine itself is open source, binary dlls are not. Wine (and the dll) can do
whatever the user has permission to do. A malicious attacker could make a
modified dll that is aware of Linux/OSX and execute specific code for those
environments, e.g., to read /etc/passwd, ~/.ssh/id_*, ~/.gnupg, look in
~/.mozilla for saved passwords, etc.

See also:
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-3cb8f054b33a63be30f98a1b6225d74e305a0459

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