Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Sep 1998 15:24:38 +1200 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: Chroot breach in 2.1.100+ |
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On Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 06:32:01PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> In some cases chroot jail can be broken by process with UID==0.
chroot jails are pointless with UID==0.
root can always do something like:
mkdir tmp # make a temp dir in the jail chroot tmp # move root to that cd ../../../../../ # step back...
to escape anyhow.
root can do so many other things anyhow, a chroot jail for root is pointless.
-cw
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