Etcd embed auto compaction retention negative value causing a compaction loop or a crash
Package
Affected versions
>= 3.4.0-rc.0, <= 3.4.9
< 3.3.23
Patched versions
3.4.10
3.3.23
Description
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Feb 3, 2024
Reviewed
Feb 3, 2024
Last updated
Jul 8, 2024
Impact
Data Validation
Detail
The parseCompactionRetention function in embed/etcd.go allows the retention variable value to be negative and causes the node to execute the history compaction in a loop, taking more CPU than usual and spamming logs.
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