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Monorepo for Revolt backend services.
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[Security] libraries with CVEs that are not used by the project #298

Closed MaticPoh closed 2 months ago

MaticPoh commented 12 months ago

What happened?

A container should be as small as possible with only the necessary libraries to run, so I would like to warn against using a base image such as debian which has a set of libraries that may be necessary for those who use it but which have security flaws already listed in docker. image

https://hub.docker.com/layers/library/debian/bullseye-slim/images/sha256-9af4db29e828a4d08c7819f9e0972e2dbdac575e73c6438630c83bd79f49c8aa?context=repo&tab=vulnerabilities

As these libraries are not used by revolt, I implemented distrolless which has other advantages such as being lighter but the main one is security so I strongly recommend using it follow the link to the PR.

https://github.com/revoltchat/backend/pull/297

insertish commented 2 months ago

Okay, turns this has some unintended consequences. For whatever reason, the events server tends to use about half of our system resources using the distroless images.

gcr.io/distroless/cc-debian12:nonroot: stupidly high CPU usage; no obvious cause debian:bookworm-slim: CPU usage is nominal; works as intended

argh i screwed up testing, creating a new issue

insertish commented 2 months ago

Investigating in https://github.com/revoltchat/backend/issues/341

insertish commented 2 months ago

It was a regression in Rust, closing this issue out since distroless images are indeed being used now.