[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Benedikt Böhm) writes:

> With regard to the /dev/pts issue on "vserver <name> enter" i have ported
> the vlogin application from vserver-utils to util-vserver-0.30.210

Mmmh... without looking at the complete code, doing operations in the
shown order is insecure:


> +     if (vc_ctx_migrate(opts.xid) == -1)
> +             PEXIT("Failed to migrate to context", EXIT_COMMAND);
> +     ...
> +     if (chroot(".") == -1)
> +             PEXIT("Failed to chroot to cwd", EXIT_COMMAND);

Attacker in context could ptrace the process between both commands and
would get access to the host's /-filesystem.



Enrico

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