CRE-2025-0099

Redpanda Crash Due to Memory Exhaustion and Startup FailuresHigh

Impact: 8/10

Mitigation: 7/10

CRE-2025-0099View on GitHub

RedpandaContainer CrashMemory ExhaustionConfiguration FailureStreaming PlatformKafka CompatiblePermission DeniedSIGKILL

Description

Redpanda streaming platform crashes due to a combination of system-level failures including permission denied errors for performance monitoring subsystems, missing critical configuration files, and memory allocation failures.

Mitigation

1. Configure kernel parameters: echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid 2. Ensure proper volume mounts for /var/lib/redpanda/data and /etc/redpanda directories 3. Increase container memory limits and implement resource quotas 4. Verify file system permissions and ownership (redpanda:redpanda) 5. Implement readiness/liveness probes with appropriate restart policies

References

• https://docs.redpanda.com/current/deploy/deployment-option/self-hosted/manual/linux-system-tuning/
• https://docs.redpanda.com/current/troubleshoot/cluster-diagnostics/k-diagnose-issues/
• https://docs.redpanda.com/current/troubleshoot/errors-solutions/