Re: svn commit: r228843 - head/contrib/telnet/libtelnet

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 12:30:23PM -0800, Xin Li wrote:
> >> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 11:00 AM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
> > Another route might have been set an env
> > var

I already suggest it as one of possible ways.

> Using an environment variable may be not a good idea since it can be
> easily overridden, and I think if the program runs something inside
> the chroot, the jailed chroot would have more proper setup to avoid
> this type of attack?

In case user (more precisely, ftpd) runs any program which resides in=20
/incoming/, nothing helps in anycase. In case ftpd runs known programs=20
=66rom known locations only, it can't be overriden because known program=20
(say, ls) is not malicious by itself and can be turned malicious only by=20
loading .so from current directory, which env variable prevents.

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