[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Henrik Heil) writes:

> 1) Chroot Barrier Flag
>
> http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~ensc/util-vserver/doc/lt2004/paper.html#fig:rmattack
>
> ---8<---
> Die Anf�lligkeit gegen Symlinkattacken und andere Races ist ein
> weiterer Nachteil des stable Branches, weshalb vom Einsatz in
> feindlichen Umgebungen wie root-Server f�r Kunden abzuraten ist.
> --->8---
>
> Is this still true -- does this mean that i cannot use the stable
> branch in a possible hostile production environment?

This applies to the stable branch of the userspace utilities only. I am
not aware about non-DOS security problems in the kernel level (except
the /proc stuff, but this should not be a problem when sysrq-support is
disabled and no SCSI drives in use).



Enrico
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