port server unduly fragile with arbitrary input -----------------------------------------------
Key: THRIFT-1205 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-1205 Project: Thrift Issue Type: Bug Components: Java - Library Affects Versions: 0.6.1 Environment: javac 1.5.0_19, OS X 10.4.11 Reporter: Toby Thain Priority: Critical Telnetting to the port and type a couple of arbitrary characters crashes the server almost immediately as follows. I haven't glanced at the relevant code. Is this reproducible on other platforms? {noformat} $ ./run-server.sh Starting the simple server... Exception in thread "Thread-0" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space at org.apache.thrift.protocol.TBinaryProtocol.readStringBody(TBinaryProtocol.java:353) at org.apache.thrift.protocol.TBinaryProtocol.readMessageBegin(TBinaryProtocol.java:215) at SimonSays$Processor.process(Unknown Source) at org.apache.thrift.server.TSimpleServer.serve(TSimpleServer.java:70) at JavaServer.simple(Unknown Source) at JavaServer$1.run(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:613) {noformat} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira