Description
Aircompressor is a library with ports of the Snappy, LZO, LZ4, and Zstandard compression algorithms to Java. All decompressor implementations of Aircompressor (LZ4, LZO, Snappy, Zstandard) can crash the JVM for certain input, and in some cases also leak the content of other memory of the Java process (which could contain sensitive information). When decompressing certain data, the decompressors try to access memory outside the bounds of the given byte arrays or byte buffers. Because Aircompressor 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. Users should update to Aircompressor 0.27 or newer where these issues have been fixed. When decompressing data from untrusted users, this can be exploited for a denial-of-service attack by crashing the JVM, or to leak other sensitive information from the Java process. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| airlift | aircompressor | < 0.27 | — |
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Wolfi
| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wolfi rolling | apache-nifi +2 | 2.0.0-r0 | — |
| Wolfi rolling | druid +1 | 32.0.1-r1 | — |
| Wolfi rolling | trino +58 | 449-r0 | — |
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
GitHub 1 repository
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SerpstatGlobal/ClickHouse-Native-JDBC ★ 1 · Sep 8, 2026
Serpstat fork of housepower/ClickHouse-Native-JDBC 2.7.1. Fixes the CityHash128 checksum defect behind "Checksum doesn't match: corrupted data" on INSERT, upgrades aircompressor to 0.27 (CVE-2024-361…
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maven | io.airlift:aircompressor | < 0.27 | 0.27 | GHSA-973x-65j7-xcf4 |
Advisories 3
- WID-SEC-2024-3674 Splunk Splunk Enterprise: Mehrere Schwachstellen BSI CERT-Bund (WID) · Jan 25, 2026
- NCSC-2025-0123 Kwetsbaarheden verholpen in Oracle Database Producten NCSC-NL (Netherlands) · Apr 16, 2025
- NCSC-2025-0028 Kwetsbaarheden verholpen in Oracle Analytics NCSC-NL (Netherlands) · Jan 22, 2025
References
- https://github.com/airlift/aircompressor/security/advisories/GHSA-973x-65j7-xcf4
- https://github.com/airlift/aircompressor/commit/15e68df9eb0c2bfde7f796231ee7cd1982965071
- https://github.com/airlift/aircompressor/commit/2cea90a45534f9aacbb77426fb64e975504dee6e
- https://github.com/airlift/aircompressor/commit/cf66151541edb062ea88b6f3baab3f95e48b7b7f
- https://github.com/airlift/aircompressor/commit/d01ecb779375a092d00e224abe7869cdf49ddc3e