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Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting org.xerial.snappy:snappy-java package, versions [,1.1.10.4)

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Proof of concept
    EPSS 0.05% (16th percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high
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Red Hat
7.5 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGXERIALSNAPPY-5918282
  • published 26 Sep 2023
  • disclosed 25 Sep 2023
  • credit Jan Werner, Mukul Khullar, Bharadwaj Machiraju
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Introduced: 25 Sep 2023

CVE-2023-43642 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-770 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade org.xerial.snappy:snappy-java to version 1.1.10.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling due to a missing upper bound check on chunk length in the SnappyInputStream function. An attacker can decompress data with an excessively large chunk size.

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