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bug #17133: design bug: ``.. resolution in translators''

Submitter:  Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge>
Submitted:  Mon 17 Jul 2006 09:46:00 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Hurd Interfaces Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  None
Status:  None Privacy:  Public
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Open/Closed:  Open Reproducibility:  None
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We should start thinking about getting rid of ".." resolution in the translators, providing a convenient replacement in libc which would work with simple string operations.
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Mon 17 Jul 2006 09:46:00 AM UTC, original submission:  

12:48 <neal> I have a nice new attack.
12:49 <neal> chroot /chroot
12:49 <neal> set an active translator on foo
12:49 <neal> cause a program which is not in the chroot to use foo
12:50 <neal> with a path resembling: "/chroot/foo/../../.."
12:50 <neal> if the program uses open, it will open "/chroot"
12:50 <neal> and NOT /
12:50 <neal> the reason?
12:51 <neal> when the active translator on /chroot/foo returns the retry capability on /chroot/foo, the capability is rooted at /chroot
12:52 <neal> transitively due to the file_reparent that chroot does
12:52 <neal> that's a design bug
12:54 <neal> abeaumont: I mean, it's not a bug which can be fixed
12:54 <neal> abeaumont: I means getting rid of .. resolution in translators

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