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Devesh Parekh commented on THRIFT-1643:
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The two attached files demonstrate the attack. Unfortunately, I've stopped
using Thrift, so writing a patch and a unit test won't be a good use of my time.
> Denial of Service attack in TBinaryProtocol.readString
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>
> Key: THRIFT-1643
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-1643
> Project: Thrift
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Java - Library
> Affects Versions: 0.6.1, 0.8
> Environment: All
> Reporter: Devesh Parekh
> Priority: Critical
> Labels: security
> Attachments: Attack.java, Foo.thrift
>
> Original Estimate: 24h
> Remaining Estimate: 24h
>
> 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.
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