Would selinux have provided protection against this firefox exploit?

[William Brown]

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-wild
> /
> 

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 at blackhats.net.au>