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Date:      Mon, 9 May 2011 12:03:48 +0100
From:      Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag=2DErling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        Jamie Landeg Jones <jamie@bishopston.net>, feld@feld.me, Edho P Arief <edhoprima@gmail.com>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Rooting FreeBSD , Privilege Escalation using Jails (P??????tur)
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2011/5/9 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no>:
> Jason Hellenthal <jhell@DataIX.net> writes:
>> Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> writes:
>> > I've updated the docs patches (links at [1]), though unfortunately it
>> > means it's a little less elegant; I'm reluctant to suggest
>> >
>> > # chmod 0700 $D/..
>> Haha I would strongly suggest against that ;) Not knowing where people a=
re
>> keeping the jails would impose quite a bit of harm if they did have them
>> in places like that or /var/jailname.
>
> What do you mean, "not knowing where people are keeping the jails"?
> Only root can start a jail, so there is no risk of anyone starting a
> hidden jail somewhere. =A0Besides, jls(8) lists the root path of each
> jail.

>From a docs point of view, if I were to type:

# setenv D /usr/local/myjail

and then:

# chmod 0700 $D/..

then I'd end up chmod'ing 700 /usr/local

This is the point I'm making, I can't recommend in the docs that one
chmods $D/.. because we (the docs writers) don't know what the user
(the reader) is going to set $D to.

Chris



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