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Date:      Tue, 1 Dec 2009 10:22:02 -0500
From:      Linda Messerschmidt <linda.messerschmidt@gmail.com>
To:        Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: UNIX domain sockets on nullfs still broken?
Message-ID:  <237c27100912010722g2f6c4647ga82370284bc26e20@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <hf0ngp$cpb$1@ger.gmane.org>
References:  <20091130142950.GA86528@logik.internal.network> <hf0lle$5mk$1@ger.gmane.org> <20091130150127.GA82188@logik.internal.network> <hf0ngp$cpb$1@ger.gmane.org>

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On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> What's the sane solution, then, when the only method of communication
>> is unix domain sockets?
>
> It is a security problem. I think the long-term solution would be to add a
> sysctl analogous to security.jail.param.securelevel to handle this.

Out of curiosity, why is allowing accessing to a Unix domain socket in
a filesystem to which a jail has explicitly been allowed access more
or less secure than allowing access to a file or a devfs node in a
filesystem to which a jail has explicitly been allowed access?



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