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On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 15:21, Stephen P. Becker wrote: |
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> > Remember, it's not just security though. A bug in a script when run |
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> > as root could wipe out all or parts of a system. |
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> ...which is the reason why we have sandbox. FEATURES="sandbox" causes |
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> an emerge to terminate immediately with an access violation if it |
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> attempts to touch system files before the build is complete. |
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> I'm not saying you are wrong by the way, I'm just pointing out that |
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> stuff like this has been thought of before, so portage has safety nets |
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> accordingly. |
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And sandbox does such a good job. |
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cd /usr/lib/portage/bin/ && HOME=`perl -e 'print "A"x512'` && ./sandbox |
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========================== Gentoo linux path sandbox |
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=========================== |
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Detection of the support files. |
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Verification of the required files. |
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Setting up the required environment variables. |
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sandbox: stack smashing attack in function setenv_sandbox_write() |
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Aborted |
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> Steve |
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> -- |
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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> |
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