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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apache

Published: 2022-06-27T17:15:18

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

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

Link: CVE-2022-26477

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

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

Modified: 2022-10-29T02:45:51.367

Link: CVE-2022-26477

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