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Critical Docker Security Alert: Unpatched Flaw Allows Host Access

Calendar May 31, 2019 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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There are lots of books on tools and techniques to secure software containers, but what happens when someone discovers a basic architectural flaw? And what do you do when there’s no working patch for it?

That’s the situation in the Docker universe this week after Suse developer Aleksa Sarai uncovered a bug in the way that the container framework handles path names.

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