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Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 19:45:48 +0300
From: Mihai =?UTF-8?B?RG9uyJt1?= <mihai.dontu@gmail.com>
To: ivo.welch@gmail.com
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Subject: Re: the easy way to sandbox?
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On Mon, 21 May 2012 09:28:13 -0700 ivo welch wrote:
> Suggestion:  introduce a system call that eliminates access to all
> real file systems for the current process.  the only permissible
> interaction would be stdin, stdout, and stderr.
> 
> this would make it very simple to write a sandboxed safe fcgi script.
> the script could load all the dynamic libraries and data it wants, and
> then call this no-more-filesystem-access feature (preferably allowable
> without root privileges).  thereafter, even if a hacker takes control
> of the script, not much permanent damage can happen.
> 
> right now, it is much more complex to accomplish this---which is why
> sandboxing cgi scripts is not used too often.
> 

Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seccomp

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Mihai Donțu
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