Emont: Video decoding in a sandbox

Guillaume Emont describes his work using the Chromium sandbox mechanism to make video decoding in GStreamer more secure. "The way setuid-sandbox works is rather straightforward: there is a sandboxme command that needs to be installed setuid root. You run sandboxme my_command and then from inside my_command, you first set up the file descriptors that you will need (being careful not to put there anything that could allow to escape the sandbox, more on that later), and then you call the provided chrootme() function, which will tell the sandboxme process to restrict the privileges that my_command has (e.g. it can still read and write on the fds that it has open, but it cannot open new ones)."

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