Setting up chroot jail with cygwin

Wed Apr 5 05:36:00 GMT 2006

Bryan D. Thomas wrote:
> "Kevin Hilton" wrote:
>> Can anyone point me to a link telling me how to set up a chrooted jail
>> with cygwin?
>> I used this:
>> $ /bin/chroot.exe --help

Can that be relied upon? chroot is a system call on Unix and Linux, 
which is how it can ensure that the process doesn't step outside the 
box. Is there a comparable feature in the Windows kernel that provides 
the same feature? Lacking that, all a determined hacker would have to 
do when attacking a buffer overrun bug is make their injected code first 
attack the cygwin1.dll before doing whatever nefarious task they want to do.
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