According to Robert Beggs, CEO of Canadian incident response firm DigitalDefence, “it facilitates other exploits.

By itself, not a major thing.

“So it allows anyone to push and escalate their privileges.”

“These are not security vulnerabilities,” says Ubuntu.

Ubuntu ships with default unconfined profiles for several applications that allow the creation of user namespaces.

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