Re: [PATCH 1/3] capabilities: user namespace capabilities

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Fri May 17 2024 - 08:13:31 EST


Jonathan Calmels <jcalmels@xxxxxxxx> 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That sentence sounds about 5 years out of date.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