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Date:      Thu, 3 Mar 2005 17:23:09 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Ean Kingston" <ean@hedron.org>
To:        "Anish Mistry" <mistry.7@osu.edu>
Cc:        Chris Hodgins <chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk>
Subject:   Re: Sharing directories with jails
Message-ID:  <4011.216.220.59.169.1109888589.squirrel@216.220.59.169>
In-Reply-To: <200503031316.56083.mistry.7@osu.edu>
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> On Thursday 03 March 2005 12:42 pm, Chris Hodgins wrote:
[cut original question and answer]

>> Ok perhaps I should clarify what my intentions are a little more.
>> I am planning on providing a FreeBSD jail for any member of a geek
>> society I am a member of.  When I say they are untrusted, I mean
>> that I won't be giving them full root access to my server but I
>> trust them enough not to do anything malicious inside a jail.  It
>> is just like a fun place they can play and not have to worry to
>> much about breaking things.
>>
>> How easy is it exactly to break out of a jail if you have access to
>> development tools?
>>
>
> http://www.securiteam.com/unixfocus/5WP031535U.html

How current is this? The article appears to be dated 2001. Are there still
buffer-overflow issues with /proc?

>
> If you use securelevels you can a sigificantly improve security.
>

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