tags 585950 upstream
severity normal
thanks

Hi,

On 06/15/2010 07:34 AM, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser-sandbox  has the suid bit
> set.  this is usually seen as a poor security practice, so this should
> be unset.

The sandbox model is not a poor security practice, it is just the
opposite and it increases security even with a small suid helper binary
to set things up.
Indeed a better approach is the seccomp-based sandbox, but it's not
quite ready:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=36133
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/list?q=label:SeccompSandbox

Cheers,
Giuseppe.

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