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Are video codecs in the present day able to be sandboxed? In my fantasies at least I’d like the worst a malicious video file can do is cause garbage output or c
by xp84 5mo ago
Are video codecs in the present day able to be sandboxed? In my fantasies at least I’d like the worst a malicious video file can do is cause garbage output or cause the codec to crash.
Forgive the ignorance, I have worked entirely in the abstracted layers of the stack, and mostly web.
- adgjlsfhk1 5mo agonot really. they're mostly pure assembly and sandboxing assembly isn't really a things
- nullpoint420 5mo agoyes it is. all modern operating systems sandbox assembly. that's how it works.
- LoganDark 5mo agoWindows may use virtualization-based security by default, but I'm not aware of macOS or Linux doing the same -- Apple builds security directly into the silicon such that no virtualization is required, and Linux just rawdogs everything. Whether that counts is up to you. I suppose it's still "sandboxed" in that it runs in a less privileged context than the kernel.