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

From Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default
Date 2018-05-13 23:10 +0200
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Ben Hutchings wrote:
> And this still mitigates a significant fraction of the security issues
> found in the kernel.

A quite significant fraction; on average this neutralises a root privilege
escalation every month or so. This is really not something that we should
re-enable any time soon.

Cheers,
        Moritz

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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
  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 Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org> - 2018-05-14 07:30 +0200

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