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

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:20:49.117

Link: CVE-2020-27174

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