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Users shouldn't be running random executables. Wine is not a sandbox!




Maybe change the name to Wins?

Wine is not a Sandbox but come on. Everyone has been using it as if it was.

Even Bottles was only a prefix-manager until a couple months ago.

I think it should be and also disallow Linux syscalls and Z: drive accesses by default from within the "sandbox" on top of that in order to reduce the attack surface.


> I think it should be and also disallow Linux syscalls and Z: drive accesses by default from within the "sandbox" on top of that in order to reduce the attack surface.

This is not even remotely sufficient. A malicious application could modify the memory pages of WINE code and execute direct syscalls anyway.

If you want sandboxing, use a Linux sandboxing solution on WINE. It's far too late to try to bolt on sandboxing now.




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