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Date:      Mon, 16 Apr 2001 15:53:08 -0600 (MDT)
From:      FreeBSD <freebsd@XtremeDev.com>
To:        Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com>
Cc:        Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com>, FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Starting JAIL
Message-ID:  <20010416154914.H79383-100000@Amber.XtremeDev.com>
In-Reply-To: <3ADB6418.D9B96B6F@nisser.com>

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On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Roelof Osinga wrote:
> You don't. Jail it might be, but it's still chroot() based (granted,
> I'll be whipped horribly if tell it wrong... but, hey! You only live
> once ;) and chroot's can be broken out of. Especially when you hand
> them a shell.

I'm curious as to how a user can break out of a FreeBSD chroot. According
to http://docs.freebsd.org/44doc/papers/jail/jail-6.html#section8, three
three classes of chroot attacks were countered in FreeBSD. Are there other
ways to break out of chroot than those mentioned?


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