airlift aircompressor up to 0.26 Compression out-of-bounds

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A vulnerability has been found in airlift aircompressor up to 0.26 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Compression Handler. This manipulation causes out-of-bounds. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2024-36114. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in airlift aircompressor up to 0.26. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part of the component Compression Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a out-of-bounds vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-125. The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Aircompressor is a library with ports of the Snappy, LZO, LZ4, and Zstandard compression algorithms to Java. All decompressor implementations of Aircompressor (LZ4, LZO, Snappy, Zstandard) can crash the JVM for certain input, and in some cases also leak the content of other memory of the Java process (which could contain sensitive information). When decompressing certain data, the decompressors try to access memory outside the bounds of the given byte arrays or byte buffers. Because Aircompressor uses the JDK class `sun.misc.Unsafe` to speed up memory access, no additional bounds checks are performed and this has similar security consequences as out-of-bounds access in C or C++, namely it can lead to non-deterministic behavior or crash the JVM. Users should update to Aircompressor 0.27 or newer where these issues have been fixed. When decompressing data from untrusted users, this can be exploited for a denial-of-service attack by crashing the JVM, or to leak other sensitive information from the Java process. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-36114 since 05/20/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

Upgrading to version 0.27 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 15e68df9eb0c2bfde7f796231ee7cd1982965071 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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Vendor

• airlift

Name

• aircompressor

Version

• 0.1
• 0.2
• 0.3
• 0.4
• 0.5
• 0.6
• 0.7
• 0.8
• 0.9
• 0.10
• 0.11
• 0.12
• 0.13
• 0.14
• 0.15
• 0.16
• 0.17
• 0.18
• 0.19
• 0.20
• 0.21
• 0.22
• 0.23
• 0.24
• 0.25
• 0.26

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/airlift/aircompressor/

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