GHSA-6f2p-2qg2-qqchLowCVSS 3.8

A flaw was found in KubeVirt's downward metrics virtio-serial server. The server reads guest...

Published
June 26, 2026
Last Modified
June 26, 2026

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📋 Description

A flaw was found in KubeVirt's downward metrics virtio-serial server. The server reads guest requests using textproto.Reader.ReadLine(), which buffers input indefinitely until a newline character is received, with no length limit or read deadline. A user with access to a VM guest that has the downward metrics virtio-serial device configured can write a continuous byte stream to the device, causing unbounded memory allocation in the virt-handler process until it is OOM-killed.

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