Google open-sources project for sandboxing C/C++ libraries on Linux

guest · Mar 19, 2019

Google open-sources project for sandboxing C/C++ libraries on Linux
Support for other programming languages to be added in future releases
March 19, 2019
https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-open-sources-project-for-sandboxing-cc-libraries-on-linux/

Google has open-sourced today a project for sandboxing C and C++ libraries running on Linux systems. The project's name is the Sandboxed API, a tool that Google has been using internally for its data centers for years.

The Sandboxed API is now available on GitHub, together with the documentation needed to help other programmers sandbox their C and C++ libraries and protect them from malicious user input and exploits.

"Many popular software containment tools might not sufficiently isolate the rest of the OS, and those which do, might require time-consuming redefinition of security boundaries for each and every project that should be sandboxed," Christian Blichmann & Robert Swiecki, from Google's ISE Sandboxing team said.
The Sandboxed API project is meant to address both issues, by providing a tried and tested/trusted tool that is also easy to use.
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OTHER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES TO BE SUPPORTED
In a blog post today, Google said that future plans for the Sandboxed API project include supporting libraries written in other programming languages besides C and C++, but also porting Sandbox2 to other Unix-like operating systems like the BSDs (FreeBSD, OpenBSD) and macOS.

"A Windows port is a bigger undertaking and will require some more groundwork to be done," Blichmann and Swiecki said.
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