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Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default

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On Tue, 2020-11-17 at 17:19 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-11-17 at 11:18 -0500, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
> [...]
> > Could we get a little more hard data about the attack vectors here? I
> > totally trust the security team's "gut feeling" on this, but it would be
> > great to be able to evaluate more concretely what we're talking about
> > here.
> > 
> > Local root privilege escalation, basically? Can we get a sense of what
> > those vulerabilities are, say with some example CVEs?
> 
> Yes, local privilege escalation.
> 
> From the advisories I've prepared, I think these are all LPEs that were
> mitigated by our current patch:
[...]
> They seem to have slowed to a trickle at this point.  And there are
> sadly lots of other LPE bugs that it has no effect on.
> 
> > I'm asking because my main concern with security these days is with the
> > web browser. It's this huge gaping hole: every measure we can take to
> > sandbox that thing is become more and more critical, so I wonder if the
> > our tradeoff's evaluation is well adjusted here, especially considering
> > a lot of user_ns consumers are bypassing those restrictions by running
> > as root anyways...
> 
> I tend to agree with this.
[...]

Since no-one contradicted this, I've gone ahead and changed the default
on the master branch.  I added a NEWS entry for linux-image meta-
packages to let people know how to change it back if they want.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

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Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org> - 2018-05-11 20:50 +0200
  Processed: Re: Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user  namespaces by default "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2018-05-13 01:40 +0200
  Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2018-05-13 01:40 +0200
    Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Frederik Himpe <frederik@frehi.be> - 2018-05-13 19:40 +0200
      Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2018-05-14 04:50 +0200
    Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> - 2018-05-13 23:10 +0200
      Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2020-03-30 12:10 +0200
        Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> - 2020-03-30 14:30 +0200
        Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2020-04-15 04:00 +0200
          Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2020-04-15 09:40 +0200
            Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2020-04-16 04:20 +0200
              Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2020-10-20 18:30 +0200
                Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> - 2020-10-22 23:00 +0200
                Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> - 2020-10-22 23:10 +0200
                Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2020-10-23 09:00 +0200
                Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org> - 2020-11-17 17:30 +0100
                Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2020-11-17 19:00 +0100
                Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2020-12-13 17:40 +0100
                Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2020-10-24 03:30 +0200
    Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org> - 2018-05-14 07:30 +0200
  Processed: Re: Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user  namespaces by default "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2018-05-14 04:50 +0200
  Bug#898446: (no subject) Nikolas Nyby <nikolas@gnu.org> - 2019-03-06 15:50 +0100
  Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Jordan Glover <Golden_Miller83@protonmail.ch> - 2020-10-23 17:30 +0200
  Bug#898446: marked as done (Please reconsider enabling the user  namespaces by default) "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2020-12-17 13:10 +0100

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