Snowflake PHP PDO Driver is a driver that uses the PHP Data Objects (PDO) extension to connect to the Snowflake database. Snowflake discovered and remediated a vulnerability in the Snowflake PHP PDO Driver where executing unsupported queries like PUT or GET on stages causes a signed-to-unsigned conversion error that crashes the application using the Driver. This vulnerability affects versions 0.2.0 through 3.0.3. Snowflake fixed the issue in version 3.1.0.
The product uses a signed primitive and performs a cast to an unsigned primitive, which can produce an unexpected value if the value of the signed primitive can not be represented using an unsigned primitive.
It is dangerous to rely on implicit casts between signed and unsigned numbers because the result can take on an unexpected value and violate assumptions made by the program. Often, functions will return negative values to indicate a failure. When the result of a function is to be used as a size parameter, using these negative return values can have unexpected results. For example, if negative size values are passed to the standard memory copy or allocation functions they will be implicitly cast to a large unsigned value. This may lead to an exploitable buffer overflow or underflow condition.