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amitlimaye

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    how do you resolve priorities between acl's with different mask shapes. Mask shapes here mean different don't care bits right. Also are the mask shapes for 5-tuple match essentiall…

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    yep this should be useful for non-manifest languages how does it actually work. tried bomtique on my toy C project it went pretty well. Does this work on something more complex lik…

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    Comment #47820214

    ptrace is atleast 2 context switches that will make it pretty slow

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    Actually you are right nothing is stopping it from reading but that does not help it escape the kernel. If you are worried about something adversarial that tries to detect its in a…

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    yes that is the goal though C++ is something i am not targetting in the short term. The idea is to be able to run untrusted binaries in a vm with no kernel. saves memory makes for …

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    Int80 is a great idea but int3 is what i landed on when i was looking and at this point just trying to get something working. The good thing about int80 is a 2 byte instruction i b…

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    AMA i am the author of that blog i have some working code just not something i want to share right away. Right now i am chasing density but yes security is something i will get to …

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    seccomp is a very coarse filter and a very limited action set. think what you could do if you could see the payload of the syscall or change the output of a read syscall depending …

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    gvisor tries to be a complete kernel in userland we are not trying to. We will consciously choose never to try and support multi-proess env in the sandbox. The idea is there are en…

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    The follow on posts describe where I plan to run the binaries. the idea is to run in a guest with no kernel and everything running at ring 0 that makes the sysret a dangerou thing …

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    Good question. I didn't cover this in the post — the binary doesn't run on the host kernel directly. It runs inside a lightweight KVM-based VM with no operating system. The shim is…

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