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Syd the perhaps most sophisticated sandbox for Linux

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There comes an inherent security risk of all kinds of stack/heap overflows, "use after free" (see above), "code injection" and other exploiting methods with it. Note: Syd also is verifying checksums of the binary itself, its dynamic libraries loaded and even the environment variables (mitigating the famous LD_PRELOAD "Linker Hijacking" tricks) are checked before it is starting it up: Syd strictly resticts access to e.g./proc/self/mem* so can mitigate a couple of attacks, e.g. the famous "Dirty Cow" exploit:

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