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minus-squareVibeSurgeon@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37arrow-down1·20 hours ago Its not like its a system service that you can get ingress through… With a competently crafted payload, you could perhaps get in via someone’s transcoding pipeline.
minus-squaregreyscale@lemmy.grey.ooolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down5·20 hours agoDoes nobody isolate ffmpeg and friends from their application? I can’t imagine you’d have much fun breaking into a container that terminates the moment the original ffmpeg stops, or over-runs its max execution time…
minus-square[object Object]@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down1·19 hours agoContainer escapes do exist, and they have shared kernel with the host
minus-squarePasserby6497@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·19 hours agoIf you’re running rootless containers, it’s less of a concern. I’m trying to move all of my public containers to podman for this reason
minus-squareVibeSurgeon@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 hours agoSure, you’d need a second exploit to escalate from there. ffmpeg is expected to run for extended periods of time, given its use in transcoding.
With a competently crafted payload, you could perhaps get in via someone’s transcoding pipeline.
Does nobody isolate ffmpeg and friends from their application?
I can’t imagine you’d have much fun breaking into a container that terminates the moment the original ffmpeg stops, or over-runs its max execution time…
Container escapes do exist, and they have shared kernel with the host
If you’re running rootless containers, it’s less of a concern. I’m trying to move all of my public containers to podman for this reason
Sure, you’d need a second exploit to escalate from there.
ffmpeg is expected to run for extended periods of time, given its use in transcoding.