Firecracker VMs run on AWS. Odd that the article doesn't mention that.

whizzter 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Firecracker is open source and possibly others use it, AWS sells services with it though.

tptacek 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

(A more complete way to say this is that Firecracker is the engine built to run AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate).

tcdent 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It has notable adoption in the agent sandbox space where this type of vulnerability is especially volatile.

thisisauserid 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> The target was Firecracker v1.16.1 on x86-64, with host kernel 7.0.0-1011-aws.

Firecracker v1.17.0 was released 10 September, so the version is ancient.

Do you even know what ancient means? 2 months is ancient for you? Are you like 6?

	▲	sscaryterry an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, 2 months is ancient if 0 days is the game.

pier25 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Fly uses it too afaik

	▲	tptacek 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Basically everyone in cloud-land uses it at this point.

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The article is light on details, it is LLM slop.