On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 11:39 PM, Xin Li <[email protected]> wrote: > This is NOT a problem with jail. For starters, it's very bad idea to > give out host shell account, privileged or not, to jail users if they > are not trusted. Let's consider this scenario: > > jail$ su -l > jail# cp /usr/bin/less /bin/root_shell > jail# chown root:wheel /bin/root_shell > jail# chmod 6555 /bin/root_shell > jail# logout > jail$ logout > > Then, you basically have a setuid binary that can be reached from host > system. As an attacker I would do: > > host$ /path/to/jail/bin/root_shell > # > As a defender I would hope that someone has already done: host# chmod 700 /path/to You're right though, jail users have no business on the host. Cheers Tom _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"