Re: why not a sandbox

[yersinia <yersinia.spiros () gmail com>]

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Adrenalin <adrenalinup () gmail com> wrote:

> It seems like the plugins in Chrome are not in a sandbox
>
> "One additional, important area that is not covered by the sandbox are
> plugins like Flash. Restricting what plugins can do does not fit well with
> what users expect, which makes plugins a major vector for attack. Langley
> said that the plugin support on Linux is relatively new, but "our
> experience on Windows is that, in order for Flash to do all the things that
> various sites expect it to be able to do, the sandbox has to be so full of
> holes that it's rather useless". He is currently looking at SELinux as a
> way to potentially restrict plugins, but, for now, they are wide open. "
>
> Google's Chromium sandbox - http://lwn.net/Articles/347547/ (August 19,
> 2009)
>
> From design-documents page "It is also possible to run the plugin processes
> inside a sandbox target, using the --safe-plugins command line." hm
>
> IMHO, if you want to go in a real or almost so , sandbox you have to
execute with a MAC security policy. Something like
http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/13376.html

BTW, xguest is on Fedora 10/11.  But a virtual machine could be better.
Protected with svirt, of course. http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/30565.html


> On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 12:23 PM, BlackHawk <hawkgotyou () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > doesn't chrome already run any single tab in a sandbox?
> >
> > http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/sandbox
> >
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