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by klooney 1141 days ago
From 2016- https://lwn.net/Articles/673597/

Andy Lutomirski described some concerns of his own:

> I consider the ability to use CLONE_NEWUSER to acquire CAP_NET_ADMIN over /any/ network namespace and to thus access the network configuration API to be a huge risk. For example, unprivileged users can program iptables. I'll eat my hat if there are no privilege escalations in there.

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I hope he hasn't been eating his hat all these years. I hear that isn't good for the digestive system... /s