Re: access to proc filesystem from chrooted process

Riley Williams (rhw@MemAlpha.CX)
Mon, 31 May 1999 01:12:05 +0100 (GMT)


Hi Khimenko.

>>> 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 :-/

I can confirm that I'm using 2.2.5 on the system in question, so
tricks that are 2.0 specific are of no interest if they don't also
work under 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 ?

So far, nobody has suggested any method that actually works...

Best wishes from Riley.

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