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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2020-10-16T04:06:54

Updated: 2024-08-04T16:11:35.839Z

Reserved: 2020-10-16T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-27174

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2020-10-16T05:15:11.830

Modified: 2021-07-21T11:39:23.747

Link: CVE-2020-27174

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