Opened 17 years ago

Closed 17 years ago

#86 closed defect (fixed)

Do not run debootstrap on dom0

Reported by: andersk Owned by: price
Priority: blocker Milestone: Public Beta
Component: autoinstallers Version:
Keywords: Cc:

Description ΒΆ

Before we go public beta, we need to make sure that our service is secure. We're currently deploying an autoinstaller infrastructure that involves running debootstrap on dom0, which is a very scary idea security-wise. I'm creating this ticket to remind us to fix this.

   xvm / autoinstaller / andersk  18:33  (Anders H Kaseorg)
       I just demonstrated that there's a security hole _now_, with the
       infrastructure that you would have deployed if I han't pointed out
       this problem.
   xvm / autoinstaller / andersk  18:34  (Anders H Kaseorg)
       debootstrap is too complicated for us to be able to think about all
       the security implications of running it in dom0.  This is simply a
       bad idea.
   xvm / autoinstaller / andersk  18:35  (Anders H Kaseorg)
       You need to come up with a way to push this work into a VM.
   xvm / autoinstaller / price  18:36  (Gregory N. Price)
       Maybe it's best if we plan to make that happen before we call this a
       beta service.  Right now it's an alpha service, and the easiest way to
       root dom0 is to put a keylogger on an office head.

Change History (1)

comment:1 Changed 17 years ago by broder

  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from new to closed

Done in a whole host of revisions, but specifically handled by the sipb-xen-autoinstaller-guest package

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