GHSA-m9c9-mc2h-9wjw Lodestar snappy checksum issue

• npm @lodestar/reqresp: < 1.25.0 → fixed in 1.25.0

Impact Unintended permanent chain split affecting greater than or equal to 25% of the network, requiring hard fork (network partition requiring hard fork) Lodestar does not verify checksum in snappy framing uncompressed chunks. Vulnerability Details In Req/Resp protocol the messages are encoded by using ssz_snappy encoding, which is a snappy framing compression over ssz encoded message. In snappy framing format there are uncompressed chunks, each such chunk is prefixed with a checksum. Let's see how golang implementation parses such chunks - https://github.com/golang/snappy/blob/master/decode.go#L176 ``` case chunkTypeUncompressedData: // Section 4.3. Uncompressed data (chunk type 0x01). if chunkLen len(r.decoded) { r.err = ErrCorrupt return r.err } if !r.readFull(r.decoded[:n], false) { return r.err } if crc(r.decoded[:n]) != checksum { r.err = ErrCorrupt return r.err } r.i, r.j = 0, n continue ``` As you can see, if checksum is incorrect, decoder fails and returns error. Now let's look at lodestar decoder https://github.com/ChainSafe/lodestar/blob/unstable/packages/reqresp/src/encodingStrategies/sszSnappy/snappyFrames/uncompress.ts#L17 ``` uncompress(chunk: Uint8ArrayList): Uint8ArrayList | null { this.buffer.append(chunk); const result = new Uint8ArrayList(); while (this.buffer.length > 0) { if (this.buffer.length < 4) break; const type = getChunkType(this.buffer.get(0)); const frameSize = getFrameSize(this.buffer, 1); if (this.buffer.length - 4 < frameSize) { break; } const data = this.buffer.subarray(4, 4 + frameSize); this.buffer.consume(4 + frameSize); if (!this.state.foundIdentifier && type !== ChunkType.IDENTIFIER) { throw "malformed input: must begin with an identifier"; } if (type === ChunkType.IDENTIFIER) { if (!Buffer.prototype.equals.call(data, IDENTIFIER)) { throw "malformed input: bad identifier"; } this.state.foundIdentifier = true; continue; } if (type === ChunkType.COMPRESSED) { result.append(uncompress(data.subarray(4))); } if (type === ChunkType.UNCOMPRESSED) { 1) result.append(data.subarray(4)); } } if (result.length === 0) { return null; } return result; } ``` As you can see, checksum is not verified, bytes are appended to 'result' Proof of Concept How to reproduce: get poc via gist link and run it: ``` $ node dec1.mjs checking chunk type=255 checking chunk type=1 got uncompressed chunk.. Decompressed ok 124 bytes ```