Vulnerability Instance

Etcd embed auto compaction retention negative value causing a compaction loop or a crash
### 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.

### References
Find out more on this vulnerability in the [security audit report](https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/blob/master/security/SECURITY_AUDIT.pdf)

### For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
* Contact the [etcd security committee](https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/blob/master/security/security-release-process.md#product-security-committee-psc)