Re: Chroot bug

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Sep 25 2007 16:48, Alan Cox wrote:
>David Newall <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Alan Cox wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Marek's loading dynamic libraries, it seems clear that the prime
>>>> purpose of chroot is to aid security.  Being able to cd your way
>>>> out is handy
>>>
>>> Does it - I can't find any evidence for that.
>>
>> It seems self-evident to me.  What do you think is it prime purpose?
>
>Debugging and testing. At least that is as I understand it much of where
>it came from.
>
>>> A root user can get out of a chroot a million different ways

Uhm, you _do_ have considered the case of setuid(non-0)-after-chroot,
have not you?
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

[Index of Archives]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Photo]     [Stuff]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Video 4 Linux]     [Linux for the blind]     [Linux Resources]
  Powered by Linux