CVE-2023-34453: medium-severity vulnerability in xerial snappy-java
snappy-java's Integer Overflow vulnerability in shuffle leads to DoS
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.9epss 1.7%
snappy-java is a fast compressor/decompressor for Java. Due to unchecked multiplications, an integer overflow may occur in versions prior to 1.1.10.1, causing a fatal error.
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. 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.
Version 1.1.10.1 contains a patch for this vulnerability.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
xerial · snappy-javaRelated CVEs — xerial snappy-java
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2023-34455HIGHsnappy-java's unchecked chunk length leads to DoSEPSS 1.8%CVE-2023-34454MEDIUMsnappy-java's Integer Overflow vulnerability in compress leads to DoSEPSS 1.5%CVE-2023-43642HIGHMissing upper bound check on chunk length in snappy-java EPSS 1.2%CVE-2026-93452HIGHsnappy-java through 1.1.10.8 Buffer Overflow in Snappy.compressEPSS 0.7%CVE-2026-90559HIGHsnappy-java through 1.1.10.8 Out-of-Bounds Write via uncompressEPSS 0.6%CVE-2026-116590MEDIUMsnappy-java: JVM crash from unchecked ranges in Snappy.arrayCopy and SnappyOutputStream.rawWriteEPSS 0.4%
References
https://github.com/xerial/snappy-java/blob/05c39b2ca9b5b7b39611529cc302d3d796329611/src/main/java/org/xerial/snappy/BitShuffle.java#L107https://github.com/xerial/snappy-java/blob/master/src/main/java/org/xerial/snappy/BitShuffle.javahttps://github.com/xerial/snappy-java/commit/820e2e074c58748b41dbd547f4edba9e108ad905https://github.com/xerial/snappy-java/security/advisories/GHSA-pqr6-cmr2-h8hf