Improving FreeBSD-SA-07:01.jail fix

Simon L. Nielsen simon at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jan 20 17:02:01 UTC 2007


On 2007.01.20 17:52:32 +0100, Stefan Bethke wrote:
> Am 20.01.2007 um 13:24 schrieb Simon L. Nielsen:
> 
> >BTW. with regard to the console.log file I really don't think it
> >should be put back inside the jail unless it's possible to make the
> >generation of the file entirely inside the jail since it's just not
> >worth the risk/complexity.
> 
> I'm probably missing something, but why not replace:
> 	_jail_id=$(head -1 ${_tmp_jail})
> 	tail +2 ${_tmp_jail} >${_rootdir}/var/log/console.log
> with:
> 	_jail_id=$(head -1 ${_tmp_jail})
> 	tail +2 ${_tmp_jail} | jexec ${_jail_id} sh -c "cat >/var/log/ 
> console.log"

I thought of, and actually implemented, a similar solution when I
worked on the problem but there are two problems:

- You cannot be sure cat exists inside the jail.
- The jail could already have exited again in which case jexec will
  fail.

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen


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