Hi Anna-Katharina,
what version are you using? In the current 3.0, the stream is closed
(implicitly) by using the try-with-resources syntax
(https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/exceptions/tryResourceClose.html):
try (CipherInputStream cis = new CipherInputStream(data, cipher))
{
…
}
According to Git Blame, try-with-resources has been used at that point since
2017, so there should be no problem. Disclaimer: I am not a maintainer, I just
sometimes contribute code.
Axel
> Am 08.09.2023 um 14:08 schrieb Anna-Katharina Wickert
> <[email protected]>:
>
> Hei dear maintainers,
>
> For a benchmark [1], we randomly sampled JCA usages to decide if the API
> usage is a violation of any API usage constraint.
> We believe we found one for the JCA class CipherInputStream.
> The call to *close* is missing for the call sequence to *CipherInputStream*.
> Thus, the input stream including the ressources of the stream are not
> released. [More Details in the JDK 17
> documentation](https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base/javax/crypto/CipherInputStream.html)
> The instance that we sampled is located in:
> - file:
> pdfbox/pdfbox/src/main/java/org/apache/pdfbox/pdmodel/encryption/SecurityHandler.java
> - method: private void encryptDataAES256(InputStream data, OutputStream
> output, boolean decrypt) throws IOException
> - line: 379
>
> To the best of my knowledge, this JCA usage does not result in a
> vulnerability (directly). However, it violates the API constraint discussed
> above. Therefore, we consider adding this usage as a violation into the
> benchmark.
>
> Best,
> Anna-Katharina Wickert
> For the CamBench team
>
> [1] https://github.com/CROSSINGTUD/CamBench
