GHSA-4gj3-6r43-3wfcHighCVSS 7.5

IPFS go-unixfsnode subject to DOS via HAMT Decoding Panics

Published
February 10, 2023
Last Modified
February 17, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Impact

Trying to read malformed HAMT sharded directories can cause panics and virtual memory leaks. If you are reading untrusted user input, an attacker can then trigger a panic.

This is caused by a bogus fanout parameter in the HAMT directory nodes. This includes checks returned in ipfs/go-bitfield GHSA-2h6c-j3gf-xp9r, as well as limiting the fanout to <= 1024 (to avoid attempts of arbitrary sized allocations).

Patches

  • https://github.com/ipfs/go-unixfsnode/commit/91b3d39d33ef0cd2aff2c95d50b2329350944b68
  • https://github.com/ipfs/go-unixfsnode/commit/a4ed723727e0bdc2277158337c2fc0d82802d122

References

  • https://github.com/ipfs/go-unixfs/security/advisories/GHSA-q264-w97q-q778
  • https://github.com/ipfs/go-bitfield/security/advisories/GHSA-2h6c-j3gf-xp9r

🎯 Affected products1

  • go/github.com/ipfs/go-unixfsnode:< 1.5.2

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