Bug 245843

Summary: [GLib] D-Bus proxy quietly fails if host session bus address is an abstract socket
Product: WebKit Reporter: Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro>
Component: WebKitGTKAssignee: Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: Normal CC: bugs-noreply
Priority: P2    
Version: WebKit Nightly Build   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
See Also: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=246159
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 206533    

Michael Catanzaro
Reported 2022-09-29 13:10:38 PDT
Moving this from https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/issues/1852. Currently we have xdg-dbus-proxy create its client socket at the exact same location in the sandbox where the host session bus socket exists on the host system, so we don't have to mess with the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable. Problem is, if the host session bus address is an abstract socket, XDGDBusProxy::makePath simply fails. We will change dbus-daemon to not default to using abstract sockets anymore in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/-/issues/416, but WebKit should support this anyway. Using an abstract socket for the host session bus creates a big sandbox escape if combined with host network access, but WebKit's web process usually does not have network access (unless using a non-local X server).
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Michael Catanzaro
Comment 1 2022-10-04 18:46:31 PDT
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Comment 2 2022-10-06 08:03:24 PDT
Committed 255218@main (79f41316d99e): <https://commits.webkit.org/255218@main> Reviewed commits have been landed. Closing PR #5011 and removing active labels.
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