Pavel Cahyna <pcah8322@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> writes:
> > etc.) do not execute as root when chrooted.
> > 
> > If the attacker does get root, and has the ability to execute
> > arbitrary code (like mknod(2)), you're pretty much lost. I can come up
> > with all sorts of evil things you can do even at high secure level.
> 
> Please continue :-) 

Obvious example: write things to the active swap partition, or start
synthesizing file handles and running fhopen on them, or a thousand
other things.


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