Advisories for Swift/Github.com/Apple/Swift-Nio-Extras package

2023

SwiftNIO Extras vulnerable to improper detection of complete HTTP body decompression

SwiftNIO Extras provides a pair of helpers for transparently decompressing received HTTP request or response bodies. These two objects (HTTPRequestDecompressor and HTTPResponseDecompressor) both failed to detect when the decompressed body was considered complete. If trailing junk data was appended to the HTTP message body, the code would repeatedly attempt to decompress this data and fail. This would lead to an infinite loop making no forward progress, leading to livelock of …