New Linux Kernel Cgroups Vulnerability Could Let Attackers Escape Container

Discussion in 'News Aggregator' started by Ravie Lakshmanan, 5 Mar 2022.

  1. Details have emerged about a now-patched high-severity vulnerability in the Linux kernel that could potentially be abused to escape a container in order to execute arbitrary commands on the container host. The shortcoming resides in a Linux kernel feature called control groups, also referred to as cgroups version 1 (v1), which allows processes to be organized into hierarchical groups,

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