GHSA-fjpj-2g6w-x25r — snappy-java's Integer Overflow vulnerability in compress leads to DoS

Affected: Maven: org.xerial.snappy:snappy-java

## Summary Due to unchecked multiplications, an integer overflow may occur, causing an unrecoverable fatal error. ## Impact Denial of Service ## Description The function [compress(char[] input)](https://github.com/xerial/snappy-java/blob/05c39b2ca9b5b7b39611529cc302d3d796329611/src/main/java/org/xerial/snappy/Snappy.java#L169) in the file [Snappy.java](https://github.com/xerial/snappy-java/blob/master/src/main/java/org/xerial/snappy/Snappy.java) receives an array of characters and compresses it. It does so by multiplying the length by 2 and passing it to the [rawCompress](https://github.com/xerial/snappy-java/blob/05c39b2ca9b5b7b39611529cc302d3d796329611/src/main/java/org/xerial/snappy/Snappy.java#L422) function.

```java public static byte[] compress(char[] input) throws IOException { return rawCompress(input, input.length * 2); // char uses 2 bytes }

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Since the length is not tested, the multiplication by two can cause an integer overflow and become negative. The rawCompress function then uses the received length and passes it to the natively compiled maxCompressedLength function, using the returned value to allocate a byte array.

```java public static byte[] rawCompress(Object data, int byteSize) throws IOException { byte[] buf = new byte[Snappy.maxCompressedLength(byteSize)]; int compressedByteSize = impl.rawCompress(data, 0, byteSize, buf, 0); byte[] result = new byte[compressedByteSize];…

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GHSA-fjpj-2g6w-x25r — snappy-java's Integer Overflow vulnerability in compress leads to DoS