The flaw was discovered and detailed by a security researcher, Felix Boulet, who demonstrated that it allows attackers to ...

In Docker Desktop, malicious containers can access the host system, protective measures are not effective. An update helps.

But, the docker host isn't the docker daemon. Ah, gotcha. But still, running the daemon as root, hrm. Vast majority of daemons these days run as their own user.

Note: I do not recommend following this example. The Docker daemon does not really like it… at all. (I even needed to restart it on my MacBook Pro afterward). But, in case we really need this file ...