CVE-2023-36478:

Description:
  Eclipse Jetty provides a web server and servlet container. In versions 11.0.0 
through 11.0.15, 10.0.0 through 10.0.15, and 9.0.0 through 9.4.52, an integer 
overflow in `MetaDataBuilder.checkSize` allows for HTTP/2 HPACK header values 
to exceed their size limit.


Severity: High

Description:

Eclipse Jetty provides a web server and servlet container. In versions 11.0.0 
through 11.0.15, 10.0.0 through 10.0.15, and 9.0.0 through 9.4.52, an integer 
overflow in `MetaDataBuilder.checkSize` allows for HTTP/2 HPACK header values 
to exceed their size limit. `MetaDataBuilder.java` determines if a header name 
or value exceeds the size limit, and throws an exception if the limit is 
exceeded. However, when length is very large and huffman is true, the 
multiplication by 4 in line 295 will overflow, and length will become negative. 
`(_size+length)` will now be negative, and the check on line 296 will not be 
triggered. Furthermore, `MetaDataBuilder.checkSize` allows for user-entered 
HPACK header value sizes to be negative, potentially leading to a very large 
buffer allocation later on when the user-entered size is multiplied by 2. This 
means that if a user provides a negative length value (or, more precisely, a 
length value which, when multiplied by the 4/3 fudge factor, is negative), and 
this length value is a very large positive number when multiplied by 2, then 
the user can cause a very large buffer to be allocated on the server. Users of 
HTTP/2 can be impacted by a remote denial of service attack.

The issue has been fixed in versions 11.0.16, 10.0.16, and 9.4.53. There are no 
known workarounds.



Credit:

Shahryar (Sean) Shagoshtasbi (Reporter)
https://github.com/ShahSean

References:

https://solr.apache.org
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-36478

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