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CVE-2023-36478: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

October 10, 2023 (updated February 16, 2024)

Eclipse Jetty provides a web server and servlet container. In versions 11.0.0 through 11.0.15, 10.0.0 through 10.0.15, and 9.0.0 through 9.4.52, an integer overflow in MetaDataBuilder.checkSize allows for HTTP/2 HPACK header values to exceed their size limit. MetaDataBuilder.java determines if a header name or value exceeds the size limit, and throws an exception if the limit is exceeded. However, when length is very large and huffman is true, the multiplication by 4 in line 295 will overflow, and length will become negative. (_size+length) will now be negative, and the check on line 296 will not be triggered. Furthermore, MetaDataBuilder.checkSize allows for user-entered HPACK header value sizes to be negative, potentially leading to a very large buffer allocation later on when the user-entered size is multiplied by 2. This means that if a user provides a negative length value (or, more precisely, a length value which, when multiplied by the 4/3 fudge factor, is negative), and this length value is a very large positive number when multiplied by 2, then the user can cause a very large buffer to be allocated on the server. Users of HTTP/2 can be impacted by a remote denial of service attack. The issue has been fixed in versions 11.0.16, 10.0.16, and 9.4.53. There are no known workarounds.

References

  • www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/18/4
  • github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/pull/9634
  • github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/releases/tag/jetty-10.0.16
  • github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/releases/tag/jetty-11.0.16
  • github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/releases/tag/jetty-9.4.53.v20231009
  • github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/security/advisories/GHSA-wgh7-54f2-x98r
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-36478

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Affected versions

All versions after 2.414.3 before 2.428

Fixed versions

  • 2.428

Solution

Upgrade to version 2.428 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-190: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Source file

maven/org.jenkins-ci.main/jenkins-core/CVE-2023-36478.yml

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