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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Shaya Potter <spotter@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: prevent breaking a chroot() jail?
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 05:07:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020709030755.GB113@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1025877004.11004.59.camel@zaphod>

Hi!

> I'm trying to develop a way to ensure that one can't break out of a
> chroot() jail, even as root.  I'm willing to change the way the syscalls
> work (most likely only for a subset of processes, i.e. processes that
> are run in the jail end up getting a marker which is passed down to all
> their children that causes the syscalls to behave differently).
> 
> What should I be aware of?  I figure devices (no need to run mknod in
> this jail) and chroot (as per man page), is there any other way of
> breaking the chroot jail (at a syscall level or otherwise)?

subterfugue.sf.net, or UML. Its hard to do with chroot(). Think
kill(-9, -1).
								Pavel
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-07-09 13:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-05 13:50 Shaya Potter
2002-07-05 14:02 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2002-07-05 14:37   ` Shaya Potter
2002-07-05 16:14     ` Jesse Pollard
2002-07-05 21:00     ` David Wagner
2002-07-05 22:26       ` Martin Josefsson
2002-07-05 14:15 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-05 15:17 ` Vance Lankhaar
2002-07-05 18:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-07-05 18:45   ` Ville Herva
2002-07-05 21:15     ` Alan Cox
2002-07-05 21:48     ` Jeff Dike
2002-07-05 21:07       ` Ville Herva
2002-07-05 21:35 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-09  3:07 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2002-07-05 15:16 Hank Leininger
2002-07-05 16:17 ` Ville Herva
2002-07-09 13:41   ` Bill Davidsen

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