ports/144010: devel/apr1 tries to use SYSVIPC even in jails

Nathaniel W Filardo nwf at cs.jhu.edu
Thu Feb 9 03:28:44 UTC 2012


On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 02:59:08AM +0000, pgollucci at freebsd.org wrote:
> Synopsis: devel/apr1 tries to use SYSVIPC even in jails
> 
> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> State-Changed-By: pgollucci
> State-Changed-When: Thu Feb 9 02:59:08 UTC 2012
> State-Changed-Why: 
> sysctl security.jail.sysvipc_allowed=1 before you build it in a jail if
> you need this
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=144010

IMHO it would be better if APR were told to use a different IPC mechanism
if it were jailed.  sysvipc_allowed has dramatically negative security
implications that the other IPC mechanisms it can use do not, AIUI.

Thanks.
--nwf;
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