CVE-2023-36478
Description
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.
CWE
- CWE-190 — CWE-190: Integer Overflow or Wraparound
- CWE-400 — CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Affected
- eclipse / jetty.project — v=>= 10.0.0, < 10.0.16 [affected]; v=>= 11.0.0, < 11.0.16 [affected]; v=>= 9.3.0, < 9.4.53 [affected]
CVSS
- 3.1 score=7.5 severity=HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
References
- https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/security/advisories/GHSA-wgh7-54f2-x98r x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/pull/9634 x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/releases/tag/jetty-10.0.16 x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/releases/tag/jetty-11.0.16 x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/releases/tag/jetty-9.4.53.v20231009 x_refsource_MISC
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/18/4
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00045.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5540
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231116-0011/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240621-0006/
Source
cvelistV5-main/cves/2023/36xxx/CVE-2023-36478.json