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revise security guidance #1072

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Description of changes:
Strengthen the warning against privileged containers, since they can bypass other protection mechanisms such as SELinux in various ways.

Upgrade the warning against sharing host namespaces, and clarify the additional risk of sharing the host PID namespace.

Expand the section on system mounts to cover local storage concerns.

Mention the new control_t label for API socket access, and the path to the Docker runtime socket at /run/docker.sock.

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Rendered locally with grip.

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Strengthen the warning against privileged containers, since they can
bypass other protection mechanisms such as SELinux in various ways.

Upgrade the warning against sharing host namespaces, and clarify the
additional risk of sharing the host PID namespace.

Expand the section on system mounts to cover local storage concerns.

Mention the new `control_t` label for API socket access, and the path
to the Docker runtime socket at `/run/docker.sock`.

Add example for Amazon ECS.

Signed-off-by: Ben Cressey <[email protected]>
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@bcressey bcressey merged commit 214b0cf into bottlerocket-os:develop Aug 25, 2020
@bcressey bcressey deleted the security-docs branch August 25, 2020 16:31
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