A malicious container image can consume an unbounded amount of memory when being pulled to a container runtime host, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux using podman, or OpenShift Container Platform. An attacker can use this flaw to trick a user, with privileges to pull container images, into crashing the process responsible for pulling the image. This flaw affects containers-image versions before 5.2.0.
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EUVD |
EUVD-2020-12557 | A malicious container image can consume an unbounded amount of memory when being pulled to a container runtime host, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux using podman, or OpenShift Container Platform. An attacker can use this flaw to trick a user, with privileges to pull container images, into crashing the process responsible for pulling the image. This flaw affects containers-image versions before 5.2.0. |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-04T06:46:30.897Z
Reserved: 2019-11-27T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2020-1702
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Status : Modified
Published: 2021-05-27T20:15:07.993
Modified: 2024-11-21T05:11:12.160
Link: CVE-2020-1702
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Weaknesses
EUVD