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Toby Thain commented on THRIFT-1205:
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Fair enough, but:
* it will inevitably be used in this way, unless (even if) there is a big
disclaimer somewhere (did I miss it?)
* doesn't Facebook use it for public facing services? What about their puzzle
server?
> port server unduly fragile with arbitrary input
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>
> 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
> Labels: security
>
> 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}
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