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With a competently crafted payload, you could perhaps get in via someone's transcoding pipeline.
Does nobody isolate ffmpeg and friends from their application?
I can't imagine you'd have much fun breaking into a container that terminates the moment the original ffmpeg stops, or over-runs its max execution time..
Container escapes do exist, and they have shared kernel with the host
If you're running rootless containers, it's less of a concern. I'm trying to move all of my public containers to podman for this reason
Sure, you'd need a second exploit to escalate from there.
ffmpeg is expected to run for extended periods of time, given its use in transcoding.