[tor-bugs] #16010 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Get a working content process sandbox for Tor Browser on Windows

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#16010: Get a working content process sandbox for Tor Browser on Windows
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 Reporter:  gk                                   |          Owner:  tbb-
                                                 |  team
     Type:  task                                 |         Status:  new
 Priority:  High                                 |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser             |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  ff52-esr, tbb-gitian, tbb-security,  |  Actual Points:
  tbb-7.0-must, TorBrowserTeam201703,            |
  GeorgKoppen201703                              |
Parent ID:  #21147                               |         Points:
 Reviewer:                                       |        Sponsor:
                                                 |  Sponsor4
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Comment (by tom):

 Replying to [comment:17 cypherpunks]:
 > According to https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-
 esr52/search?limit=100&redirect=false&q=__except%20path%3Asecurity/sandbox%2F
 you can use #12425 as an easy-fix/dirty-haxx just to get it working like
 #12113, but it's not safe, however.

 I'm pretty sure we cannot. try {} except {} can be replaced with
 setjmp/longjmp but __try / __except are a special MSVC extension that
 catches what would otherwise be a segfault.

 Right now we're looking at a few options:
 1) Rip out all __try / __except and just hope we don't hit an access
 violation in normal usage
 2) MinGW's __try1 / __except1 construct
 3) libseh from here:
 http://www.programmingunlimited.net/siteexec/content.cgi?page=mingw-seh

 Preliminary testing of both 1 and 2 indicate these probably don't work.
 But we don't know exactly why yet.

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