Nervos CKB Snappy decompress length can be very large and causes out of memory error
Key facts
- Attack vector
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Attack complexity
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- Impact type
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- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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- Fix status
- Fixed
No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from GitHub.
Summary
### Impact Adversary can create message which compressed size is less than the package limit but the decompressed length is very large such as 1G. It will cost the node many memories to process the network messages, and on the system with less than 1G memory, the process is killed directly because of out of memory error. ### Patches The node must check the decompress length before allocating the memory for the message. ### References * https://github.com/nervosnetwork/ckb/blob/687d797f1888dd05d1f38ce6d1bef3e5b9b6e38b/network/src/compress.rs#L68 * https://github.com/BurntSushi/rust-snappy/blob/master/src/decompress.rs#L106 * https://github.com/BurntSushi/rust-snappy/blob/6cfb836463b9b3ac48ca7cd15d0a50d030e95769/src/decompress.rs#L30
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
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| — | ckb (crates.io) | before 0.34.2 | 0.34.2 | Patch available | GHSA-3gjh-29fv-8hr6 |
- ckb (crates.io) Vendor— Affected before 0.34.2 Fixed in 0.34.2 Patch available GHSA-3gjh-29fv-8hr6
Remediation
- Fix · GHSA-3gjh-29fv-8hr6 ckb (crates.io) Fixed in 0.34.2 Advisory →
Timeline
- 2026-10-03 Threatist record created from GHSA-3gjh-29fv-8hr6
Sources
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