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Date:      Wed, 13 Nov 2002 20:30:58 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: tty/pty devices not safe in jail? 
Message-ID:  <98061.1037215858@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Nov 2002 11:27:59 PST." <200211131927.gADJRxP8085877@apollo.backplane.com> 

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In message <200211131927.gADJRxP8085877@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon w
rites:
>    Hmm.  While tracking down a null mount issue I think I might have
>    come across a potentially serious problem with jail.  It seems to
>    me that it would be possible for someone inside a jailed environment
>    to 'steal' pty's, tty's, or the tty side of a pty that is being
>    used from within other jails or by processes outside the jail.  Has
>    this ever come up before?

There has always been code in kern/tty_pty.c which makes sure that the
master and slave have the same prison:

        } else if (pti->pt_prison != td->td_ucred->cr_prison) {
                return (EBUSY);


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