jackson-dataformat-smile: unbounded eager byte[] allocation for raw binary in the async parser allows OutOfMemoryError denial of service
What fixes it
- 2.18.12jackson-dataformat-smileCVE List
- 2.21.8jackson-dataformat-smileCVE List
- 2.22.4jackson-dataformat-smileCVE List
- 3.1.8jackson-dataformat-smileCVE List
- 3.2.4jackson-dataformat-smileCVE List
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Description
The asynchronous Smile parser (NonBlockingByteArrayParser) uses a raw-binary length prefix taken from untrusted input to allocate a byte[] before the body is read, with no upper bound and no overflow check. On the raw-binary marker 0xFD, _decodeVInt() computes (value << 6) + (i & 0x3F) without the (value >>> 25) != 0 overflow guard present in the blocking SmileParser._readUnsignedVInt, and _startRawBinary then allocates the declared length immediately.
A Smile feed of roughly ten bytes can therefore force an eager allocation of approximately 2 GB, producing an OutOfMemoryError on reactive or asynchronous Smile endpoints. A VInt crafted to overflow int yields a negative length and a NegativeArraySizeException, a RuntimeException that is not a JacksonException and so escapes the parser contract. Either outcome crashes the request or processing thread.
This is the same class of issue as CVE-2020-28491 in the CBOR parser of this library, which was fixed with a LONGEST_NON_CHUNKED_BINARY guard; the asynchronous Smile parser never received the equivalent guard. No privileges or user interaction beyond the ability to submit data for parsing are required.
Text from CVE List
Affected versions 10
- jackson-dataformat-smileaffected: 2.9.0 before 2.18.12CVE List
- jackson-dataformat-smileunaffected: 2.18.12CVE List
- jackson-dataformat-smileaffected: 2.19.0 before 2.21.8CVE List
- jackson-dataformat-smileunaffected: 2.21.8CVE List
- jackson-dataformat-smileaffected: 2.22.0 before 2.22.4CVE List
- jackson-dataformat-smileunaffected: 2.22.4CVE List
- jackson-dataformat-smileaffected: 3.0.0 before 3.1.8CVE List
- jackson-dataformat-smileunaffected: 3.1.8CVE List
- jackson-dataformat-smileaffected: 3.2.0 before 3.2.4CVE List
- jackson-dataformat-smileunaffected: 3.2.4CVE List