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Date:      Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:59:47 -0800
From:      Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
To:        Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Modified version of jexec allows non-root access into jails
Message-ID:  <459743C3.90801@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061229090146.d2bc2b1c.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
References:  <20061229120030.3DCE316A530@hub.freebsd.org> <45950CFD.5020506@freebsd.org> <20061229090146.d2bc2b1c.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>

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Bill Moran wrote:
> You also describe a scenerio where a user can create a jail of his own
> design and give himself root inside it, thus allowing him to use the
> setuid trick to get root on the host as well.  The place this falls down
> is that the user would need to already have root to create the jail in the
> first place.

Not necessarily.  An unprivileged user can create hard links to binaries
he doesn't own, including suid binaries.

Colin Percival



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