# CVE-2024-36124: iq80 Snappy has an out-of-bounds read when uncompressing data, leading to JVM crash

- Also known as: GHSA-8WH2-6QHJ-H7J9
- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.5
- Published: 2024-06-03 · Updated: 2024-09-05

## Affected

- dain snappy: fixed in 0.5
- org.iq80.snappy:snappy (Maven): fixed in 0.5

## Description

iq80 Snappy is a compression/decompression library. When uncompressing certain data, Snappy tries to read outside the bounds of the given byte arrays. Because Snappy uses the JDK class `sun.misc.Unsafe` to speed up memory access, no additional bounds checks are performed and this has similar security consequences as out-of-bounds access in C or C++, namely it can lead to non-deterministic behavior or crash the JVM. iq80 Snappy is not actively maintained anymore. As quick fix users can upgrade to version 0.5.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on dain snappy, org.iq80.snappy:snappy, upgrade to a fixed version (0.5) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/dain/snappy/security/advisories/GHSA-8wh2-6qhj-h7j9

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