Stack overflow error caused by logansquare serialization List

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Stack overflow error caused by logansquare serialization List

Description

logansquare before v1.3.7 was discovered to contain a stack overflow via the List parameter. This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted string.

Error Log

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StackOverflowError
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.core.json.WriterBasedJsonGenerator._verifyValueWrite(WriterBasedJsonGenerator.java:939)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.core.json.WriterBasedJsonGenerator.writeStartArray(WriterBasedJsonGenerator.java:252)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.JsonMapper.serialize(JsonMapper.java:267)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.internal.objectmappers.ListMapper.serialize(ListMapper.java:26)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.internal.objectmappers.ListMapper.serialize(ListMapper.java:14)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.internal.objectmappers.ObjectMapper.serialize(ObjectMapper.java:63)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.JsonMapper.serialize(JsonMapper.java:270)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.internal.objectmappers.ListMapper.serialize(ListMapper.java:26)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.internal.objectmappers.ListMapper.serialize(ListMapper.java:14)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.internal.objectmappers.ObjectMapper.serialize(ObjectMapper.java:63)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.JsonMapper.serialize(JsonMapper.java:270)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.internal.objectmappers.ListMapper.serialize(ListMapper.java:26)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.internal.objectmappers.ListMapper.serialize(ListMapper.java:14)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.internal.objectmappers.ObjectMapper.serialize(ObjectMapper.java:63)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.JsonMapper.serialize(JsonMapper.java:270)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.internal.objectmappers.ListMapper.serialize(ListMapper.java:26)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.internal.objectmappers.ListMapper.serialize(ListMapper.java:14)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.internal.objectmappers.ObjectMapper.serialize(ObjectMapper.java:63)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.JsonMapper.serialize(JsonMapper.java:270)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.internal.objectmappers.ListMapper.serialize(ListMapper.java:26)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.internal.objectmappers.ListMapper.serialize(ListMapper.java:14)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.internal.objectmappers.ObjectMapper.serialize(ObjectMapper.java:63)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.JsonMapper.serialize(JsonMapper.java:270)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.internal.objectmappers.ListMapper.serialize(ListMapper.java:26)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.internal.objectmappers.ListMapper.serialize(ListMapper.java:14)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.internal.objectmappers.ObjectMapper.serialize(ObjectMapper.java:63)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.JsonMapper.serialize(JsonMapper.java:270)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.internal.objectmappers.ListMapper.serialize(ListMapper.java:26)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.internal.objectmappers.ListMapper.serialize(ListMapper.java:14)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.internal.objectmappers.ObjectMapper.serialize(ObjectMapper.java:63)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.JsonMapper.serialize(JsonMapper.java:270)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.internal.objectmappers.ListMapper.serialize(ListMapper.java:26)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.internal.objectmappers.ListMapper.serialize(ListMapper.java:14)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.internal.objectmappers.ObjectMapper.serialize(ObjectMapper.java:63)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.JsonMapper.serialize(JsonMapper.java:270)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.internal.objectmappers.ListMapper.serialize(ListMapper.java:26)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.internal.objectmappers.ListMapper.serialize(ListMapper.java:14)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.internal.objectmappers.ObjectMapper.serialize(ObjectMapper.java:63)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.JsonMapper.serialize(JsonMapper.java:270)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.internal.objectmappers.ListMapper.serialize(ListMapper.java:26)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.internal.objectmappers.ListMapper.serialize(ListMapper.java:14)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.internal.objectmappers.ObjectMapper.serialize(ObjectMapper.java:63)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.JsonMapper.serialize(JsonMapper.java:270)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.internal.objectmappers.ListMapper.serialize(ListMapper.java:26)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.internal.objectmappers.ListMapper.serialize(ListMapper.java:14)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.internal.objectmappers.ObjectMapper.serialize(ObjectMapper.java:63)
	at com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.JsonMapper.serialize(JsonMapper.java:270)

PoC

        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.bluelinelabs</groupId>
            <artifactId>logansquare</artifactId>
            <version>1.3.7</version>
        </dependency>

import com.bluelinelabs.logansquare.LoganSquare;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;

public class PoC3 {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        ArrayList<Object> list = new ArrayList<>();
        list.add(list);
        try {
            LoganSquare.serialize(list);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
    }
}

Rectification Solution

1. Refer to the solution of jackson-databind: Add the depth variable to record the current parsing depth. If the parsing depth exceeds a certain threshold, an exception is thrown. (FasterXML/jackson-databind@fcfc499)

2. Refer to the GSON solution: Change the recursive processing on deeply nested arrays or JSON objects to stack+iteration processing.(（google/gson@2d01d6a20f39881c692977564c1ea591d9f39027）)

References

1. If the value in map is the map's self, the new new JSONObject(map) cause StackOverflowError which may lead to dos jettison-json/jettison#52
2. https://github.com/jettison-json/jettison/pull/53/files

[NBXXF]

you can use https://github.com/NBXXF/gson_plugin