GNU bug report logs - #43071
Enable WebKit sandboxing

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Message #10 received at 43071 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 43071 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>,
 Jimmy Aguilar Mena <kratsbinovish <at> gmail.com>, Jaesup Kwak <veshboo <at> gmail.com>,
 Qiantan Hong <qhong <at> mit.edu>, Sungbin Jo <pcr910303 <at> icloud.com>
Subject: Re: bug#43071: Enable WebKit sandboxing
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 06:41:57 -0700

Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> writes:

> Qiantan Hong suggested that Emacs should enable sandboxing in WebKit, for all
> the usual security reasons. (Thanks, Qiantan!)
>
> Attached is a proposed patch to implement that suggestion; it's a bit fancier
> than what Qiantan originally proposed in
> <https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2020-08/msg00896.html> because it checks
> that WebKit 2.26 or later is in use, and it avoids a duplicate call to
> webkit_web_context_get_default. I'm cc'ing this to Qiantan and to other recent
> committers to xwidget.c, to get their opinions.

Thanks Qiantan Hong and Paul Eggert.

Is this important enough to warrant backporting to emacs-26?

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