Wine being targeted for adware
Stefan Dösinger
stefan at codeweavers.com
Wed Jan 14 04:57:23 CST 2009
> As long as the facilities exist for keeping an entire wine bottle
> isolated from other bottles (and ~/) I don't see this being a major
> issue.
They don't.
Even if you don't have a drive link pointing out of a bottle, a Windows app
running in Wine can still call Linux syscalls(int 0x80). This is
possible/needed because Windows apps run as a regular Linux process that
links in Linux libraries which perform linux syscalls.
So any Windows malware can break out of the Wine "sandbox"(which isn't a
sandbox really) by simply using linux syscalls.
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