CVE-2020-27174
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Oct 16, 2020
- Updated
- Aug 4, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 16, 2020
Description
In Amazon AWS Firecracker before 0.21.3, and 0.22.x before 0.22.1, the serial console buffer can grow its memory usage without limit when data is sent to the standard input. This can result in a memory leak on the microVM emulation thread, possibly occupying more memory than intended on the host.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/issues/2177
- https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/pull/2178
- https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/pull/2179
- [oss-security] 20201023 CVE-2020-27174: Firecracker serial console emulation may allocate an unbounded amount of memorymailing-list
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