Fwd: bypassing wireguard using firejail

Sitaram Chamarty sitaramc at gmail.com
Tue May 14 06:05:32 CEST 2019



On 11/05/2019 17.04, Steve Dodd wrote:
> On Sat, 11 May 2019 at 02:09, Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc at gmail.com
> <mailto:sitaramc at gmail.com>> wrote:

>     Some other tool, if it's running as root or is suid root, can
>     still bypass wireguard, regardless of how it is setup.
> 
> 
> I suspect that can be prevented - on modern systems being root isn't
> necessarily the be-all and end-all. Capabilities and namespaces can
> still be used to  constrain applications in lots of ways.

Thanks for the links.  I had not read the netns page on wireguard.com
till now.

The last section of that page, "the new namespace solution", appears to
do exactly this; I'm going to try that out when I get some time.

thanks again
sitaram


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