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From: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: David Newall <david@davidnewall.com>,
	Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>, majkls <majkls@prepere.com>,
	bunk@fs.tum.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sys_chroot+sys_fchdir Fix
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:53:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46F9752C.5080807@cfl.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070921191012.15a0b51b@the-village.bc.nu>

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:39:34 -0400
> Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> 
>> David Newall wrote:
>>> * In particular, the superuser can escape from a =91chroot jail=92 by d=
>>> oing=20
>>> =91mkdir foo; chroot foo; cd ..=92.
>> No, he can not.
> 
> The superuser can escape that way - its expected and fine behaviour

Does not work for me, and that would be the EXACT thing chroot is 
supposed to prevent.  Maybe you guys are thinking of a program that 
calls chroot() but leaves cwd outside the chroot still being able to 
navigate outside of it?



  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-25 20:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-19  7:19 sys_chroot+sys_fchdir Fix majkls
2007-09-19  9:40 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-19 18:27   ` Bill Davidsen
2007-09-19 18:45     ` Alan Cox
2007-09-19 22:24       ` David Newall
2007-09-21 17:39         ` Phillip Susi
2007-09-21 18:10           ` Alan Cox
2007-09-25 20:53             ` Phillip Susi [this message]
2007-09-26  0:23               ` Al Viro
2007-09-26 10:34                 ` David Newall
2007-09-26 11:21                   ` Alan Cox
2007-09-26 11:22                     ` David Newall
2007-09-26 11:38                       ` Alan Cox
2007-09-26 11:56                         ` David Newall
2007-09-26 14:10                           ` Alan Cox
2007-09-26 15:03                             ` Chris Adams
2007-09-26 16:54                             ` David Newall
2007-09-26 17:04                               ` Alan Cox
2007-09-26 17:18                                 ` David Newall
2007-09-26 17:29                                   ` Alan Cox
2007-09-26 17:28                                     ` David Newall
2007-09-26 18:40                   ` Al Viro
2007-09-26 19:24                   ` Christer Weinigel
2007-09-26 21:19                     ` David Newall
2007-09-26 21:55                       ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-26 23:35                         ` David Newall
2007-09-27  0:01                           ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-27  3:59                             ` Al Viro
2007-09-27  6:42                             ` David Newall
2007-09-27  6:53                               ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-27  7:28                       ` Christer Weinigel
2007-09-27 11:23                         ` Theodore Tso
2007-09-27 14:36                           ` Bill Davidsen
2007-09-28  1:06                             ` David Newall
     [not found] <952DN-83o-31@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <954cl-29C-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <95ctn-74b-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <95cMH-7um-19@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]       ` <95gdA-4OZ-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-09-20 11:13         ` Bodo Eggert
2007-09-20 11:59           ` Philipp Marek
2007-09-20 12:52             ` majkls
2007-09-20 16:06             ` David Newall
2007-09-20 16:17               ` Philipp Marek
2007-09-20 18:02                 ` David Newall
2007-09-20 20:53                   ` Bill Davidsen
2007-09-21  8:29                     ` David Newall
2007-09-24 21:32                       ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-09-24 22:04                         ` David Newall
2007-09-24 23:00                           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-09-25  7:45                             ` David Newall
2007-09-25 11:49                               ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-09-25 13:58                                 ` David Newall
2007-09-24 23:02                           ` Serge E. Hallyn
     [not found]         ` <95UE2-1oR-19@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]           ` <95V72-2ly-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]             ` <97pG8-3B5-47@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]               ` <97sX2-p1-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-09-26  9:38                 ` Nick Craig-Wood
     [not found] <fa.1U6+49SWHSlhuK5/3PBckFWAbXU@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.WASh5K8oOF4DAq3sSYtIlWNCdWQ@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]   ` <fa.X6MeYG+PmN8/e5zfGij80quLaws@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]     ` <fa./eIdqiAY0Mx9xHl6ESobHaLKJBM@ifi.uio.no>

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