Re: access to proc filesystem from chrooted process

Khimenko Victor (khim@sch57.msk.ru)
Mon, 31 May 1999 02:45:35 +0400 (MSD)


In <E10nUmF-0004e2-00@the-village.bc.nu> Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) wrote:
>> The claim made was that a hacker who hacks into a chroot trap can
>> mount proc and use it to get out of the chroot trap, and I can't see
>> how such can be done, hence the question...

> /proc/[pid]/fd/.. is handles to files outside the chroot area.

It does not. In 2.2 at least. In 2.0 you can just use /proc/1/cwd :-)
But for 2.2... Hm... I'm not sure how to use proc to get out of the chroot
trap with 2.2 :-/

> That has limited uses as you are normally non root (if you are root the
> chroot problem is uninteresting).

> Simply provide some proc-daemons, and talk to them for ps service.

Doable but still it's interesting question: is it possible for non-root
to get out of chroot trap via proc ?

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