CVE-2022-36078CWE-789

Slice Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value in binary

High · published September 2, 2022

CVSS v3.1
8.8
EPSS
1%
Percentile
67.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Binary provides encoding/decoding in Borsh and other formats. The vulnerability is a memory allocation vulnerability that can be exploited to allocate slices in memory with (arbitrary) excessive size value, which can either exhaust available memory or crash the whole program. When using `github.com/gagliardetto/binary` to parse unchecked (or wrong type of) data from untrusted sources of input (e.g. the blockchain) into slices, it's possible to allocate memory with excessive size. When `dec.Decode(&val)` method is used to parse data into a structure that is or contains slices of values, the length of the slice was previously read directly from the data itself without any checks on the size of it, and then a slice was allocated. This could lead to an overflow and an allocation of memory with excessive size value. Users should upgrade to `v0.7.1` or higher. A workaround is not to rely on the `dec.Decode(&val)` function to parse the data, but to use a custom `UnmarshalWithDecoder()` method that reads and checks the length of any slice.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01181 · 67.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-789 · Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value
Published
2022-09-02T12:15Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 02 SEP 12:15Z
    Slice Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value in binary
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