Azure Kubernetes Service: Node disk DOS by writing to container /etc/hosts (CVE-2020-8557)
Microsoft announced general availability of this Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) update in September 2020.
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- Microsoft id
azure-kubernetes-service-node-disk-dos-by-writing-to-container-etchosts-cve20208557- Products
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Update type
- Security
- Product categories
- Compute, Containers
- General availability
- September 2020
- Status pages
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) status
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- Source
- Azure Updates · open the original at Microsoft
Microsoft says
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.
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