CVE-2023-25568 Information

Description

Boxo formerly known as go-libipfs is a library for building IPFS applications and implementations. In versions 0.4.0 and 0.5.0 if an attacker is able allocate arbitrary many bytes in the Bitswap server those allocations are lasting even if the connection is closed. This affects users accepting untrusted connections with the Bitswap server and also affects users using the old API stubs at github.com/ipfs/go-libipfs/bitswap because users then transitively import github.com/ipfs/go-libipfs/bitswap/server. Boxo versions 0.6.0 and 0.4.1 contain a patch for this issue. As a workaround those who are using the stub object at github.com/ipfs/go-libipfs/bitswap not taking advantage of the features provided by the server can refactor their code to use the new split API that will allow them to run in a client only mode: github.com/ipfs/go-libipfs/bitswap/client.

Reference

https://github.com/ipfs/go-libipfs/security/advisories/GHSA-m974-xj4j-7qv5 https://github.com/ipfs/boxo/commit/9cb5cb54d40b57084d1221ba83b9e6bb3fcc3197 https://github.com/ipfs/boxo/commit/baa748b682fabb21a4c1f7628a8af348d4645974 https://github.com/ipfs/boxo/commit/62cbac40b96f49e39cd7fedc77ee6b56adce4916