Re: access to proc filesystem from chrooted process

Bernd Eckenfels (ecki@lina.inka.de)
Mon, 31 May 1999 02:38:11 +0200


In article <19990522184117.A1895@storm.local> you wrote:
> But then you have to be careful if you use that as a security
> enhancement. Programs that are suid root can break out of their chroot
> by cd'ing to /proc/1/root.

Programs which can run as root can break out of the chroot anyway. At least
on the current linux implementation.

Greetings
Bernd

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