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Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 15:16:55 +0300
From: gremlin@...mlin.ru
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: tftpd-hpa - insecure chroot()

Just look at this code and guess how it would be compiled on most
systems:

========================================
    /* Chroot and drop privileges */
    if (secure) {
        if (chroot(".")) {
            syslog(LOG_ERR, "chroot: %m");
            exit(EX_OSERR);
        }
#ifdef __CYGWIN__
        chdir("/");             /* Cygwin chroot() bug workaround */
#endif
    }
========================================

:-)


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Alexey V. Vissarionov aka Gremlin from Kremlin
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