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Enhancing X11 Application Security with LXC

29 pointsby shirozukiyesterday at 9:27 PM7 commentsview on HN

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mid-kidtoday at 12:04 AM

For an article written late last year I hoped for a little more awareness of how massive a security hole granting full, unfiltered access to the X11 server is. Granted, any sandboxing is better than none, but firefox is one of the few apps that already sandboxes itself really well, and with a blog title like that it might be good to touch upon things like nested X servers such as Xephyr.

sunshine-otoday at 12:00 AM

This is a great article.

I have little experience with lxc but I guess waypipe could be an option too.

LtWorfyesterday at 11:28 PM

Or one could just use firejail, which comes with a number of pre made profiles for common applications.

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calvinmorrisonyesterday at 11:38 PM

Xlibre (the only current actively developed implementation of a X11 server) has a new extension - XNamespace to address some challenges as well.

https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/blob/master/doc/Xnamespa...

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