CVE-2020-27174

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…

published October 16, 2020

CVSS
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EPSS
2%
Percentile
77.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01741 · 77.6th percentile
Published
2020-10-16T04:06Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 OCT 04:06Z
    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…
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