Azure Kubernetes Service: Node disk DOS by writing to container /etc/hosts (CVE-2020-8557)

1st September 2020 Anthony Mashford

If a pod writes a large amount of data to the etc/hosts file within Azure Kubernetes Service, it can potentially cause the node to fail.
Source: Azure Roadmap

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