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Bug 2271183

Summary: chromium: downloads non-free component libchromescreenai.so without asking
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Federico Leva <federicoleva>
Component: chromiumAssignee: Tom "spot" Callaway <spotrh>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 39CC: egolov, spotrh, than, tpopela, yaneti
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URL: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1066910
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Fixed In Version: chromium-123.0.6312.58-2.fc39 chromium-123.0.6312.58-2.fc38 chromium-123.0.6312.86-1.fc40 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Description Federico Leva 2024-03-23 12:48:33 UTC
At least as of chromium-123.0.6312.58-1.fc39.x86_64 , Chromium downloads a 250 MB binary in ./.config/chromium/screen_ai/123.4/libchromescreenai.so . I can't find an option or user flag to disable this behaviour either.

$ md5sum ./.config/chromium/screen_ai/123.4/libchromescreenai.so
319f4c39192205b6b24e554b546bcb34  ./.config/chromium/screen_ai/123.4/libchromescreenai.so
$ sha512sum ./.config/chromium/screen_ai/123.4/libchromescreenai.so
62a1d058aad4c5b8f769817d201b0f71dd4223ca3a50bbe631cde66c95a950eeece08a90442846c13951cef86fcdf007f4ec214593006528019e602077a063c0  ./.config/chromium/screen_ai/123.4/libchromescreenai.so
$ sha1sum ./.config/chromium/screen_ai/123.4/libchromescreenai.so
3266a292e7dd51cb4a9cbbfe03390cc8041e48d9  ./.config/chromium/screen_ai/123.4/libchromescreenai.so
$ strings ./.config/chromium/screen_ai/123.4/libchromescreenai.so  | gzip > libchromescreenai.so.strings.txt.gz

Reproducible: Always




Debian has a patch to prevent this behaviour: https://salsa.debian.org/chromium-team/chromium/-/commit/ee2d7017ed0b99a27f5b763ee782fdd8a0999660

Comment 1 Federico Leva 2024-03-23 12:52:18 UTC
Created attachment 2023214 [details]
strings output

strings finds about 800k unique lines which may give an idea of the content, some of which seems to be a derivative of MPL code

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2024-03-25 15:45:44 UTC
FEDORA-2024-f92215b177 (chromium-123.0.6312.58-2.fc40) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 40.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-f92215b177

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2024-03-25 15:45:49 UTC
FEDORA-2024-8c3da7e7be (chromium-123.0.6312.58-2.fc38) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 38.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-8c3da7e7be

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2024-03-25 15:45:55 UTC
FEDORA-2024-4ad2447841 (chromium-123.0.6312.58-2.fc39) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 39.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-4ad2447841

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2024-03-26 01:12:03 UTC
FEDORA-2024-4ad2447841 has been pushed to the Fedora 39 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2024-4ad2447841`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-4ad2447841

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2024-03-26 01:20:55 UTC
FEDORA-2024-f92215b177 has been pushed to the Fedora 40 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2024-f92215b177`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-f92215b177

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2024-03-26 01:51:43 UTC
FEDORA-2024-8c3da7e7be has been pushed to the Fedora 38 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2024-8c3da7e7be`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-8c3da7e7be

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2024-03-27 01:26:42 UTC
FEDORA-2024-4ad2447841 (chromium-123.0.6312.58-2.fc39) has been pushed to the Fedora 39 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2024-03-27 01:37:18 UTC
FEDORA-2024-8c3da7e7be (chromium-123.0.6312.58-2.fc38) has been pushed to the Fedora 38 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2024-03-29 00:19:45 UTC
FEDORA-2024-85531c965e (chromium-123.0.6312.86-1.fc40) has been pushed to the Fedora 40 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.