Description
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.
Published: 2022-06-27
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 7.0% Low
KEV: No
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-0283 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-m43h-hfrq-x8wx SystemDS CPU exhaustion vulnerability
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apache

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-03T05:03:32.880Z

Reserved: 2022-03-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-26477

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Status : Modified

Published: 2022-06-27T18:15:08.853

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:54:01.453

Link: CVE-2022-26477

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