Denial of service in readExternal method
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.
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Affected packages
Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.
| Package | Affected versions | Patched versions |
|---|---|---|
org.apache.systemds:systemdsMaven | < 2.2.2 | 2.2.2 |
systemdsPyPI | < 2.2.2 | 2.2.2 |
Affected products
3- ghsa-coords2 versions
< 2.2.2+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.2
- Apache Software Foundation/Apache SystemDSv5Range: unspecified
Patches
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References
6- github.com/advisories/GHSA-m43h-hfrq-x8wxghsaADVISORY
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-26477ghsaADVISORY
- github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/systemds/PYSEC-2022-222.yamlghsaWEB
- lists.apache.org/thread/r4x2d2r6d4zykdrrx6s2l4qbxgzws0z3ghsax_refsource_MISCWEB
- security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220812-0003ghsaWEB
- security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220812-0003/mitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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