So how safe is Firefox these days?

jimbob palmer jimbobpalmer at gmail.com
Sun Mar 22 10:49:19 UTC 2009


2009/3/22 Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org>:
> jimbob palmer wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> A year or so ago (if I remember correctly), selinux contained a bunch
>> of policy hacks to make firefox work.
>>
>> Does firefox now have a normal 100% safe selinux policy, or does
>> firefox still do weird stuff?
>
> Refer
>
> http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/15700.html
>
> Rahul
>

Thanks Rahul.

So the selinux policy doesn't really confine it?

Does firefox still do tricks with executable memory, and does it use
address space randomisation?

I read somewhere that Firefox was top of the list for security bugs on Fedora.




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