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jailed processes can attach to other jails

Description:

A programming error has been found in the jail_attach(2) system call which affects the way that system call verifies the privilege level of the calling process. Instead of failing immediately if the calling process was already jailed, the jail_attach system call would fail only after changing the calling process's root directory.

A process with superuser privileges inside a jail could change its root directory to that of a different jail, and thus gain full read and write access to files and directories within the target jail.

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portaudit: jailed processes can attach to other jails

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Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org>