Devesh Parekh created THRIFT-1643: ------------------------------------- Summary: Denial of Service attack in TBinaryProtocol.readString Key: THRIFT-1643 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-1643 Project: Thrift Issue Type: Bug Components: Java - Library Affects Versions: 0.8, 0.6.1 Environment: All Reporter: Devesh Parekh Priority: Critical Attachments: Attack.java, Foo.thrift
In readString, if the string field's size is greater than the number of bytes remaining in the byte array to deserialize, libthrift will happily allocate a byte array of that size in readStringBody, filling the heap. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira