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icedchai on May 29, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Docker Bug Allows Root Access to Host Filesystem

Huh? Most VPSes are virtual machines (likely KVM, possible Xen, based), and are not using Docker at all.

laumars on May 29, 2019 [–]

You do get container-based VPSes too. Though you're right they wouldn't be docker. Usually OpenVZ (last time I checked) but I've not kept up to date with LXC development.

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