[ale] Doing a chroot in Perl

Christopher Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Wed Aug 30 08:50:33 EDT 2006


On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 08:39 -0400, Jerry Yu wrote:
> what exactly is the permission on your jail / (aka, ScriptExecRoot)? 

Being able to not delete the file like in the example below is normal.
I recreated that in the system root.

What I find strange is that I do the following

1.  chroot to /opt/SAM/FC2/ScriptExecRoot
2.  use setuid() and setgid() to change to UID/GID 500 (tomcat).
3.  Now as user tomcat I do command ps or ls and send
    output to / (chroot root) /out.txt

I can do that in the jail but not in the regular system as user tomcat


> [tomcat at sam-demo /]$ ps > /out.txt
-bash: /out.txt: Permission denied
[tomcat at sam-demo /]$ sudo /opt/SAM/ScriptExecRoot/bin/exec.pl 


BusyBox v1.2.1 (2006.08.29-17:16+0000) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

$ ps > /out.txt
$ ls -l /out.txt
-rw-r--r--    1 500      500          6689 Aug 30 08:49 /out.txt
$ 

This is where I'm getting confused.  Probably just a permissions problem
with the fact that ScriptExecRoot is owned by root but exists in a
directory owned by tomcat.

> On 8/30/06, Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
>         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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