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



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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