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Medium · 5.9 CVE-2023-23625 EUVD-2023-0769GHSA-q264-w97q-q778GO-2023-1557

Denial of service in HAMT Decoding in go-unixfs

Published Feb 9, 2023 · Updated Mar 10, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

go-unixfs is an implementation of a unix-like filesystem on top of an ipld merkledag. Trying to read malformed HAMT sharded directories can cause panics and virtual memory leaks. If you are reading untrusted user input, an attacker can then trigger a panic. This is caused by bogus `fanout` parameter in the HAMT directory nodes. Users are advised to upgrade to version 0.4.3 to resolve this issue. Users unable to upgrade should not feed untrusted user data to the decoding functions.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
ipfs go-unixfs < 0.4.3 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/ipfs/go-unixfs < 0.4.3 0.4.3 GHSA-q264-w97q-q778

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