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Date:      Tue, 11 Jan 2005 23:05:43 +0100
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Micah <micah@micah.ws>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Possible security issue with jails 
Message-ID:  <24203.1105481143@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:10:55 GMT." <20050111221055.GD68350@micah.tamu.edu> 

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In message <20050111221055.GD68350@micah.tamu.edu>, Micah writes:
>Howdy!
>
>I'm not sure if this is actually an issue, feature or a bug,  but I have found
>that inside a jail, the jailed root user is able to sniff traffic (and enable
>promiscuous mode) on at least the interface of the IP address the jail is attached
>to.

Only if you leave bpf devices in the devfs mounted on the jail.

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