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I'm talking not only about trusting the distribution chain but about the situation where some services dont rebuild their images using updated bases if they dont have a new release.

So per example if the particular service latest tag was a year ago they keep distributing it with a year old alpine base...

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[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 13 points 8 months ago

I don’t think a year old base is bad. Unless there’s an absolutely devastating CVE in something like the network stack or a particular shared library, any vulnerabilities in it will probably be just privilege escalations that wouldn’t have any effect unless you were allowing people shell access to the container. Obviously, the application itself can have a vulnerability, but that would be the case regardless of base image.

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