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GMS-2022-2938: DOS and excessive memory usage when passing untrusted user input to to dag import

July 6, 2022 (updated February 20, 2023)

go-ipfs nodes crash when trying to import certain malformed CAR files due to an issue in the go-car dependency. This impacts nodes running ipfs dag import on untrusted user inputs, for example, pinning services with a car ingest endpoint. This include the corresponding HTTP RPC API v0/dag/import endpoint. An attacker controlling the car file passed in can also make the node allocate arbitrary sized buffers creating memory exhaustion attacks.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-f2gr-7299-487h
  • github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/security/advisories/GHSA-f2gr-7299-487h

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 0.5.0 before 0.13.1

Fixed versions

  • v0.13.1

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.13.1 or above.

Source file

go/github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/GMS-2022-2938.yml

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