• sir_pronoun@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    What about those apps using out of date libraries? Wouldn’t that become a security issue - since containers usually aren’t that secure, right? And all app developers would have to update their container libraries separately, instead of just updating the system libraries?

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      4 months ago

      As containers are isolated - it’s mostly a security issue for the container itself. It may become an issue, though, if the container is allowed to freely interact with filesystem, for example.

      Apps like Flatseal allow you to easily control such variables using a GUI instead of tinkering in the terminal.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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      4 months ago

      So if a library is out of date you can just update it. As far as containers go they are fine for security as bubblewrap is pretty solid.