Re: Glitch in sys_chroot()

Aaron M. Ucko (amu@mit.edu)
14 Nov 1996 19:32:01 -0500

Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour@origin-at.co.uk> writes:

> This was commented on in some security lists, but it never seems
> to have made it into the kernel as of 2.0.25.

That's because the bug is in chroot(8), not chroot(2). chroot(2) is
supposed to change only the root directory; Linux's behavior is
correct.

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