PYSEC-2022-222
Vulnerability from pysec - Published: 2022-06-27 18:15 - Updated: 2022-07-14 05:11The Security Team noticed that the termination condition of the for loop in the readExternal method is a controllable variable, which, if tampered with, may lead to CPU exhaustion. As a fix, we added an upper bound and termination condition in the read and write logic. We classify it as a "low-priority but useful improvement". SystemDS is a distributed system and needs to serialize/deserialize data but in many code paths (e.g., on Spark broadcast/shuffle or writing to sequence files) the byte stream is anyway protected by additional CRC fingerprints. In this particular case though, the number of decoders is upper-bounded by twice the number of columns, which means an attacker would need to modify two entries in the byte stream in a consistent manner. By adding these checks robustness was strictly improved with almost zero overhead. These code changes are available in versions higher than 2.2.1.
| Name | purl | systemds | pkg:pypi/systemds |
|---|
{
"affected": [
{
"package": {
"ecosystem": "PyPI",
"name": "systemds",
"purl": "pkg:pypi/systemds"
},
"ranges": [
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "2.2.2"
}
],
"type": "ECOSYSTEM"
}
],
"versions": [
"0.2.0",
"2.0.0",
"2.0.1",
"2.1.0",
"2.2.0",
"2.2.1"
]
}
],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2022-26477",
"GHSA-m43h-hfrq-x8wx"
],
"details": "The Security Team noticed that the termination condition of the for loop in the readExternal method is a controllable variable, which, if tampered with, may lead to CPU exhaustion. As a fix, we added an upper bound and termination condition in the read and write logic. We classify it as a \"low-priority but useful improvement\". SystemDS is a distributed system and needs to serialize/deserialize data but in many code paths (e.g., on Spark broadcast/shuffle or writing to sequence files) the byte stream is anyway protected by additional CRC fingerprints. In this particular case though, the number of decoders is upper-bounded by twice the number of columns, which means an attacker would need to modify two entries in the byte stream in a consistent manner. By adding these checks robustness was strictly improved with almost zero overhead. These code changes are available in versions higher than 2.2.1.",
"id": "PYSEC-2022-222",
"modified": "2022-07-14T05:11:54.728743Z",
"published": "2022-06-27T18:15:00Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://lists.apache.org/thread/r4x2d2r6d4zykdrrx6s2l4qbxgzws0z3"
},
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m43h-hfrq-x8wx"
}
]
}
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