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Niraj Tolia commented on THRIFT-1643:
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Will submit a TCompactProtocol test case for review soon. I will also look at
the TBinaryProtocol code right after that and, assuming the solution is
similar, will submit a fix for that too.
> 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: 0.6.1, 0.8
> Environment: All
> Reporter: Devesh Parekh
> Assignee: Roger Meier
> Priority: Critical
> Labels: security
> Attachments:
> 0001-Address-denial-of-service-in-TCompactProtocol.patch, 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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