Re: Rooting FreeBSD , Privilege Escalation using Jails (Pétur)

Chris Rees utisoft at gmail.com
Fri May 6 16:03:13 UTC 2011


On 6 May 2011 16:27, "Daniel Jacobsson" <daniel.jacobsson.90 at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Daniel Jacobsson skrev 2011-05-06 17:05:
>>
>> I read this (http://www.petur.eu/blog/?p=459) blog post today. It's about
that a remote user with root privilegs to a FreeBSD jail & user privileges
to the jails host machine can obtain root privileges on the host machine.
>> Can someone confirm if this bugg/exploit works?
>
> Ah, think i found an old post (
http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Thoughts-on-jail-privilege-FAQ-submission-td4219099.html)
about this subject, so it seems to be old news.

Oops, looks like I broke my promise to make a doc entry...

Thanks for reminding me!

Chris


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