Re: prevent breaking a chroot() jail?

[Ville Herva]

On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 04:48:43PM -0500, you [Jeff Dike] wrote:
> [e-mail] said:
> > ISTR UML had some security problems (guest processes being able to
> > disrupt host processes or just guest processes being able to disrupt
> > other guest processes). Have those been resolved yet?  
> 
> Can you be more specific?  That's not ringing any bells with me.

Sorry, I should've searched the archives before asking. It was just a thing
I had read somewhere, quite a while ago. Can't find the exact reference now,
but google does give a couple of hits:

http://online.securityfocus.com/bid/3973/discussion/

I just hadn't heard these having been addressed, but that's most likely just
me not following closely enough.

> As far as I know, there's nothing that needs to be resolved.

Glad to hear. I'll try it next time I'll need to jail something.

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