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Firejail

Firejail

#Application Protection#Application Security

A developer-first, API-driven platform that provides development teams with a suite of tools to improve code quality, security, and engineering performance, seamlessly integrated into their existing development workflows.

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Firejail: A SUID Sandbox for Enhanced Security

Firejail is a SUID sandbox program designed to minimize the risk of security breaches. It achieves this by limiting the running environment of untrusted applications through the use of Linux namespaces, seccomp-bpf, and Linux capabilities.

It allows a process and its descendants to manage kernel resources

It enables a process and all its child processes to maintain their own private view of globally shared kernel resources. These resources include the network stack, process table, and mount table. Firejail is compatible with both SELinux and AppArmor environments, and it integrates seamlessly with Linux Control Groups. The software, which is written in C and has virtually no dependencies, can run on any Linux computer that has a kernel version of 3.x or newer.

It can sandbox any type of process

This includes servers, graphical applications, and even user login sessions.

The software includes sandbox profiles for common Linux applications

The software provides sandbox profiles for several popular Linux applications, including Mozilla Firefox, Chromium, VLC, Transmission, and others.

The sandbox is lightweight and has low overhead

The sandbox is lightweight, and it has low overhead.

No Complex Configuration Needed for Security Features

There are no complex configuration files to modify, no socket connections that need to be opened, and no daemons running in the background. All security features are integrated directly into the Linux kernel and are accessible on any Linux computer.