PYSEC-2026-504
Buffer overflow in sponge queue functions
Details
### Impact
The Keccak sponge function interface accepts partial inputs to be absorbed and partial outputs to be squeezed. A buffer can overflow when partial data with some specific sizes are queued, where at least one of them has a length of 2^32 - 200 bytes or more.
### Patches
Yes, see commit [fdc6fef0](https://github.com/XKCP/XKCP/commit/fdc6fef075f4e81d6b1bc38364248975e08e340a). ### Workarounds
The problem can be avoided by limiting the size of the partial input data (or partial output digest) below 2^32 - 200 bytes. Multiple calls to the queue system can be chained at a higher level to retain the original functionality. Alternatively, one can process the entire input (or produce the entire output) at once, avoiding the queuing functions altogether.
### References
See [issue #105](https://github.com/XKCP/XKCP/issues/105) for more details.
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Affected packages
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References
- https://github.com/XKCP/XKCP/security/advisories/GHSA-6w4m-2xhg-2658[WEB]
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-37454[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/XKCP/XKCP/issues/105[WEB]
- https://github.com/johanns/sha3/issues/17[WEB]
- https://github.com/tiran/pysha3/issues/29[WEB]
- https://github.com/XKCP/XKCP/commit/fdc6fef075f4e81d6b1bc38364248975e08e340a[WEB]
- https://github.com/johanns/sha3/commit/5f2e8118a62831911703c8753ff2435c3b5d7312[WEB]
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5269[WEB]
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5267[WEB]
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-02[WEB]
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35050307[WEB]
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33281106[WEB]
- https://mouha.be/sha-3-buffer-overflow[WEB]
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CMIEXLMTW5GO36HTFFWIPB3OHZXCT3G4[WEB]
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3ALQ6BDDPX5HU5YBQOBMDVAA2TSGDKIJ[WEB]
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CMIEXLMTW5GO36HTFFWIPB3OHZXCT3G4[WEB]
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3ALQ6BDDPX5HU5YBQOBMDVAA2TSGDKIJ[WEB]
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00000.html[WEB]
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00041.html[WEB]
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/sha3/CVE-2022-37454.yml[WEB]
- https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/331[WEB]
- https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/hash-functions/sha-3-project[WEB]
- https://pypi.org/project/pysha3[PACKAGE]
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6w4m-2xhg-2658[ADVISORY]