On 08/08/15 08:30, William Brown wrote:
On Sat, 2015-08-08 at 08:26 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
Not being a student of selinux I wonder if it would have protected users and the system against the recently discovered firefox exploit.
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/08/06/firefox-exploit-found-in-the-wi... /
Normally firefox would run in your users context (unconfined_t), so no, this would not have prevented it.
Unless you run a confined user, or firefox in a sandbox, these may have limited the scope of the damage.
Thank you.
Follow up. How about system files such as /etc/passwd ?