Re: [PATCH 1/3] capabilities: user namespace capabilities
"Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]> Fri, 17 May 2024 06:32:46 -0500
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Jonathan Calmels <[email protected]> writes: > Attackers often rely on user namespaces to get elevated (yet confined) > privileges in order to target specific subsystems (e.g. [1]). Distributions > have been pretty adamant that they need a way to configure these, most of > them carry out-of-tree patches to do so, or plainly refuse to enable > them. Pointers please? That sentence sounds about 5 years out of date. Eric