Resource Exhaustion Affecting istio-istioctl package, versions <0:1.4.10-1.0.1.el7


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE7-ISTIOISTIOCTL-2576398
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed23 Jul 2020

Introduced: 23 Jul 2020

CVE-2020-8557  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:7 istio-istioctl to version 0:1.4.10-1.0.1.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2020-5765.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream istio-istioctl package and not the istio-istioctl package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

The Kubernetes kubelet component in versions 1.1-1.16.12, 1.17.0-1.17.8 and 1.18.0-1.18.5 do not account for disk usage by a pod which writes to its own /etc/hosts file. The /etc/hosts file mounted in a pod by kubelet is not included by the kubelet eviction manager when calculating ephemeral storage usage by a pod. If a pod writes a large amount of data to the /etc/hosts file, it could fill the storage space of the node and cause the node to fail.

CVSS Scores

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