Enhancing X11 Application Security with LXC

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• mid-kid 1 hour ago
  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-o 1 hour ago
  This is a great article.

  I have little experience with lxc but I guess waypipe could be an option too.
• LtWorf 2 hours ago
  Or one could just use firejail, which comes with a number of pre made profiles for common applications.
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  • nosioptar 1 hour ago
    The sandbox command works well on systems using SELinux.

    https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_...
• calvinmorrison 1 hour ago
  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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  • Chu4eeno 1 hour ago
    Not the only one, there's also a new one (written in zig) I've forgot the name of.

    edit: phoenix was the name: https://github.com/external-mirrors/phoenix#phoenix

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    • mappu 55 minutes ago
      There's also this new one: https://github.com/joske/yserver