Re: Chroot bug

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Tue Sep 25 2007 - 11:48:57 EST



On Sep 26 2007 01:11, David Newall wrote:
> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> On Sep 26 2007 00:40, David Newall wrote:
>>
>> > Miloslav Semler pointed out that a root process can chdir("..") out of its
>> > chroot.
>> So what? Just do this: chdir into the root after chroot.
>
> I don't think so. His exploit just got me all the way out of a chroot within a
> chroot within a chroot, inclusive of lots of chdirs.

Close all fds that point to directories outside the root ;-)

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