apparmor + firejail behavior torbrowser

concerned1 · August 20, 2019, 7:40pm

I was running tor browser with the command firejail --seccomp torbrowser. It worked fine, then all of the suddn noscript stopped working and said it had to be restarted. I restarted tor browser the same way (firejail --seccomp) and got a red screen, saying something went wrong.

I then opened up torbrowser without firejail and it worked perfectly.

Does firejail --seccomp torbrowser disable noscript in some way?

As for apparmor, when I run sudo aa-status, it shows 3 processes in enforce mode for tor-browser, but I am only running 1. They each have their own id also.

Can anyone help me investigate this to see what is going on and how to correct it?

Patrick · August 21, 2019, 7:45am

Documentation updated just now. See https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Tor_Browser#Hardening instead.

Not deliberate. It probably happens due to firejail restricting access to that file or something else.

madaidan · August 21, 2019, 10:42am

The default seccomp filter for firejail likely blocks a syscall the Tor Browser needs. Use the proper profile instead by running

firejail --profile=/etc/firejail/start-tor-browser.profile torbrowser

Patrick_mobile · August 21, 2019, 3:52pm

Insufficient. Details:

We don’t confine the wrapper /usr/bin/torbrowser. As per above ticket. We confine actual Tor Browser only.

Use as per wiki instructions.

madaidan · August 21, 2019, 2:17pm

Yes but the only way to confine the Tor Browser only while still using the torbrowser script is to set a variable in a file in /etc/torbrowser.d which is permanent unless you remove it which is not good for a one-time test.

Patrick_mobile · August 21, 2019, 2:58pm

No, can also use.

torbrowser --hardening

That is temporary until next browser start.
(Adds hardening to actual Tor Browser only. Not to the wrapper. Same.)

(Environment variable would also work.)

madaidan · August 21, 2019, 3:01pm

Ah, I haven’t tried that yet so I forgot it was possible.