Re: [PATCH] BSD Jail LSM (2/3)

[Alan Cox]

On Gwe, 2004-09-10 at 21:23, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> Attached is a patch against the security Kconfig and Makefile to support
> bsdjail, as well as the bsdjail.c file itself.  bsdjail offers
> functionality similar to (but more limited than) the vserver patch.

Looking over the code the first question I would ask is that it supports
AF_INET but not AF_INET6. That seems a bit limited in todays internet
environment. 

> A process in a jail lives under a chroot which is not vulnerable to the
> well-known chdir(...)(etc)chroot(.) attack against normal chroots, and
> may be locked to one ip address.  For additional features, please see
> Documentation/bsdjail.txt, which is included in the next patch.

You can break out with someone co-operating from outside the jail but
that I guess is pretty harmless anyway. 

Alan
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