Fitgirl repacks some how escapes sandbox?[bottles on Linux] (mander.xyz)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by UsemyName@mander.xyz to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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So i was installing a repack on my linux system, using bottles because of its flatpak sandbox.

As the install was wrapping, it asked the standard question about redirecting the websites, I (probably thinking nothing will happen) didn't uncheck anything, and to my surprise, it opened the Firefox browser on my main system and launched the website: giving me quite the spook

doesn't this mean that anything i install on bottles can somehow still ping home even if I disable networking from Flatseal?

am I being paranoid or is this a serious security flaw?

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[-] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 10 months ago

If you disable networking, nothing can "ping home". It didn't ping anything, it opened the default program on your computer for using the web and passed a website request to it. That's standard behavior.