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Couldn't or shouldn't each parser be run in a container with systemd-nspawn or LXC or another container runtime? (Even if all it's doing is reading a file format into process space as NX data not code as the current user)


NX bit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_bit

Executable-space protection > Limitations mentions JITs and ROP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable-space_protection

mprotect(), VirtualAlloc[Ex] and VirtualProtect[Ex],

"NX bit: does it protect the stack?" https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/47807/nx-bit-do...




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