Daniel Collins created KAFKA-14063:
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             Summary: Kafka message parsing can cause ooms with small 
antagonistic payloads
                 Key: KAFKA-14063
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-14063
             Project: Kafka
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: generator
    Affects Versions: 3.2.0
            Reporter: Daniel Collins


When parsing code receives a payload for a variable length field where the 
length is specified in the code as some arbitrarily large number (assume 
INT32_MAX for example) this will immediately try to allocate an ArrayList to 
hold this many elements, before checking whether this is a reasonable array 
size given the available data. 

The fix for this is to instead throw a runtime exception if the length of a 
variably sized container exceeds the amount of remaining data. Then, the worst 
a user can do is force the server to allocate 8x the size of the actual 
delivered data (if they claim there are N elements for a container of Objects 
(i.e. not a byte string) and each Object bottoms out in an 8 byte pointer in 
the ArrayList's backing array).

This was identified by fuzzing the kafka request parsing code.



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