[Bug 50797] New: Please sandbox all Wine applications on launch

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50797

            Bug ID: 50797
           Summary: Please sandbox all Wine applications on launch
           Product: Wine
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: wineserver
          Assignee: wine-bugs at winehq.org
          Reporter: luke.hutch at gmail.com
      Distribution: ---

I had a Windows virus, running in WINE, wipe a large chunk of one of my Linux
hard drives before I realized it and stopped the damage. Windows antivirus
software is too complex to run in WINE, so all Windows applications run in WINE
may damage a user's home directory. This leads to a very uneasy feeling
whenever I launch any Windows application in WINE on Linux.

There are now many ways to sandbox Linux applications, via a series of fairly
new Linux kernel features, and also due to some libraries and systems built on
top of these new isolation mechanisms. Please see my request here in the RedHat
bug tracker:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1179507

It would actually be much better to fix this upstream in Wine than have just
one vendor (RedHat) fix this in their distribution.

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