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  1. Hadoop YARN
  2. YARN-6709

Root privilege escalation in experimental Docker support

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    • CVE-2017-7669 / YARN's Docker support did not do enough input validation. This allowed a root level escalation from an ordinary user account.
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    • CVE-2017-7669

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      YARN-3853 and friends do not do enough input validation. They allow a user to do escalate privileges at root trivially. See https://effectivemachines.com/2017/06/02/docker-security-in-framework-managed-multi-user-environments/ for more information.

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            vvasudev Varun Vasudev
            aw Allen Wittenauer
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