[ale] Doing a chroot in Perl

Christopher Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Wed Aug 30 08:05:02 EDT 2006


This is kinda strange.  On this same example I'm now outside of my
chroot jail and I can not delete a file that is owned by me
I created that file in the jail.  I've not figured out why I was able to
do that.  Since the '/' of the jail is owned by root.  

[tomcat at sam-demo ScriptExecRoot]$ whoami
tomcat
[tomcat at sam-demo ScriptExecRoot]$ ls -l 
total 276
drwxrwxr-x    2 root   root     4096 Aug 30 07:58 bin
drwxr-xr-x   23 root   root   233472 Aug 26 18:25 dev
drwxr-xr-x    2 root   root     4096 Aug 30 08:02 etc
drwxr-xr-x    3 root   root     4096 Aug 26 18:20 home
dr-xr-xr-x    2 root   root     4096 Aug 26 20:02 lib
drwxr-xr-x    6 root   root     4096 Aug 27 14:54 opt
-rw-r--r--    1 tomcat tomcat   6689 Aug 30 08:02 out.txt
dr-xr-xr-x  202 root   root        0 Apr 18 05:32 proc
drwxr-xr-x    2 root   root     4096 Aug 26 18:21 root
drwxrwxr-x    2 root   root     4096 Aug 26 17:31 sbin
drwxrwxrwt    2 root   root     4096 Aug 28 15:41 tmp
drwxrwxr-x    4 root   root     4096 Aug 30 07:59 usr

I'm outside the jail as user tomcat and I try to delete the file I
created inside the jail as tomcat.  I can't do it.

[tomcat at sam-demo ScriptExecRoot]$ rm out.txt 
rm: cannot remove `out.txt': Permission denied



On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 12:35 -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> I doing something wrong in my test program.  This program takes an
> argument and executes it in a chroot environment.  If not argument is
> given it will simply execute the shell instead.
> 
> This is part of my script execution that I asked about a week or so ago.
> I am now going to extract the script from the database and place it in a
> chroot environment.  I will then execute it from there.  I'm using this
> test program before I integrate it into the main code.
> 
> --- [ Cut Here ]-------------------------------------
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> use POSIX qw/setuid setgid/;
> use strict;
> 
> # Globals
> my $root = "/opt/SAM/ScriptExecRoot";
> 
> sub main {
> 
>   # Verify if proc is mounted
>   # if not mount it for the user
>   if(! -d "$root/proc/1") {
>     system "mount -o bind /proc $root/proc";
>   }
> 
> 
>   # Setup default language
>   # This root does not support locale
>   # and perl needs this
>   $ENV{'LANG'} = "C";
>   $ENV{'PATH'} = "$ENV{'PATH'}:/sbin:/usr/sbin";
> 
>   # Change our root and
>   # set our uid
>   chroot $root;
> 
>   my ($name,$pass,$uid,$gid,undef,undef,undef,$dir) = getpwnam("tomcat")
> or die;
> 
>   setgid $uid;
>   setuid $uid;
>   chdir $dir;
> 
>   # No argument?  Just exec a shell
>   if($#ARGV == -1 ) {
>     exec "/bin/sh"
>       or die "exec $!\n";
>   }
> 
>   exec "/bin/sh", ("-c", @ARGV)
>     or die "exec $!\n";
> }
> 
> exit main;
> --- [ Cut Here ]-------------------------------------
> 
> The problem is that I'm able to do stuff I should not be able to.
> 
> Here is output 
> 
> --- [ Cut Here ]-------------------------------------
> [root at sam-demo ScriptExecRoot]# bin/exec.pl 
> 
> 
> BusyBox v1.2.1 (2006.08.26-21:30+0000) Built-in shell (ash)
> Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
> 
> $ ps > /
> $ ls -l /out
> -rw-r--r--    1 500      500          6998 Aug 26 23:42 /out
> $ 
> [root at sam-demo ScriptExecRoot]# ls -l 
> total 276
> drwxrwxr-x    2 root   root     4096 Aug 26 19:42 bin
> drwxr-xr-x   23 root   root   233472 Aug 26 18:25 dev
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root   root     4096 Aug 26 19:28 etc
> drwxr-xr-x    3 root   root     4096 Aug 26 18:20 home
> dr-xr-xr-x    2 root   root     4096 Aug 26 19:29 lib
> drwxr-xr-x    3 root   root     4096 Aug 26 17:58 opt
> -rw-r--r--    1 tomcat tomcat   6998 Aug 26 19:42 out
> dr-xr-xr-x  209 root   root        0 Apr 18 05:32 proc
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root   root     4096 Aug 26 18:21 root
> drwxrwxr-x    2 root   root     4096 Aug 26 17:31 sbin
> drwxrwxrwt    2 root   root     4096 Aug 26 19:42 tmp
> drwxrwxr-x    3 root   root     4096 Aug 26 17:29 usr
> --- [ Cut Here ]-------------------------------------
> 
> As you can see /out is owned by tomcat.tomcat but why was he able to
> place anything in /out?  Probably something simple I'm not seeing or
> forgot to do.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
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