[Vserver] Security patch for util-vserver-0.30

2004-07-31 Thread ktf
If anybody is running vservers with the util-vserver-0.30 utilities he/she may want to have a look at the attached patch below. Normally I'd have waited until the package maintainer (Enrico Scholz) had checked the patch and give it a official ok but I think the addressed problem is really serious

Re: [Vserver] Security patch for util-vserver-0.30

2004-07-31 Thread Paul Sladen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [*** IMHO: This patch is low-medium priority.] There is no security risk to existing vservers. However, when creating a vserver using `util-vserver'; if a file called: '/var/log/foo/bar root'(with

Re: [Vserver] Security patch for util-vserver-0.30

2004-08-02 Thread ktf
On 31 Jul, Paul Sladen wrote: > There is no security risk to existing vservers. However, when creating a > vserver using `util-vserver' (...) As Paul already stated there are problems when creating a new vserver, but one dangerous line is in the section that is processed during each vserver start