firejail breach? Or just a missuse case?

Discussion in 'all things UNIX' started by Amanda, Feb 27, 2016.

  1. Amanda

    Amanda Registered Member

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    I have two Firefox'es that I use: One is with:

    * firejail firefox

    and the other with:

    * firejail --private firefox -no-remote

    Today I noticed that I could see my normal /home through the second firefox, and this isn't supposed to happen.

    I recorded a video so you can see. I can't upload it to Youtube because I use the "private" firefox for Youtube, but I uploaded it to sendspace instead. It's only 13 MB. https://www.sendspace.com/file/zrjep9
     
  2. wat0114

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    Assuming you are using latest v0.9.38, where do you get the "-no-remote" option from?? I don't see it anywhere in either man firejail or typing firejail --help.

    EDIT

    I just now see it's a firefox command line option. Well the -no-remote option does open a new firefox process that's invisible to the first, thus opening separate profiles, so maybe that's the issue?
     
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  3. Amanda

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    I'm not sure. I mean, they were supposed to be completely separate from each other, as it did happen in the past. But being able to view my real /home while using the "--private" option indicates either a misuse from my end or a very serious bug in firejail.
     
  4. wat0114

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    Yeah, I don't know what to say, having no experience with command line options in Firefox, especially when combined with firejail.
     
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