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...
/
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.
--
William Brown <william(a)blackhats.net.au>