amazon-ion ion-java up to 1.10.4 allocation of resources

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A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in amazon-ion ion-java up to 1.10.4. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation results in allocation of resources. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-21634. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in amazon-ion ion-java up to 1.10.4 (Programming Language Software). Affected is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a allocation of resources vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-770. The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

Amazon Ion is a Java implementation of the Ion data notation. Prior to version 1.10.5, a potential denial-of-service issue exists in `ion-java` for applications that use `ion-java` to deserialize Ion text encoded data, or deserialize Ion text or binary encoded data into the `IonValue` model and then invoke certain `IonValue` methods on that in-memory representation. An actor could craft Ion data that, when loaded by the affected application and/or processed using the `IonValue` model, results in a `StackOverflowError` originating from the `ion-java` library. The patch is included in `ion-java` 1.10.5. As a workaround, do not load data which originated from an untrusted source or that could have been tampered with.

The weakness was published 01/04/2024 as GHSA-264p-99wq-f4j6. The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-21634 since 12/29/2023. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1499.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 207972 (RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0 (RHSA-2024:7441)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 1.10.5 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (207972). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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• Programming Language Software

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• amazon-ion

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• ion-java

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• 1.10.0
• 1.10.1
• 1.10.2
• 1.10.3
• 1.10.4

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• Product: https://github.com/amazon-ion/ion-java/

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