[scponly] danger of allowing -e in rsync ?

[Lupe Christoph]

On Friday, 2006-03-24 at 07:51:50 +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote:

> Well from time to time someone has found a way to brake out of a chroot.
> So it might be possible that someone uploads his personal brake-out-of-chroot
> program and executes it and is out.

The cracker needs to be able to exploit a vulnerability to become root.
POSIX prescribes that root *must* be able to escape a chroot.

Lupe Christoph
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