Resource Reuse
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a virtualization risk where physical resources (RAM, storage, CPU) allocated to one VM by the hypervisor are later reassigned to a different VM, potentially leaking data between them
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example
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a hypervisor host with 4 GB of RAM supporting three VMs at 2 GB each — RAM gets allocated and shared/reused between VMs, which can inadvertently expose data if not properly managed
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