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A Study of Application Sandbox Policies in Linux
2022
Proceedings of the 27th ACM on Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies
Desktop operating systems, including macOS, Windows 10, and Linux, are adopting the application-based security model pervasive in mobile platforms. In Linux, this transition is part of the movement towards two distribution-independent application platforms: Flatpak and Snap. This paper provides the first analysis of sandbox policies defined for Flatpak and Snap applications, covering 283 applications contained in both platforms. First, we find that 90.1% of Snaps and 58.3% of Flatpak
doi:10.1145/3532105.3535016
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