[jira] [Resolved] (RNG-120) Fix security issues in serialization code for Random instances

["Alex Herbert (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RNG-120?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Alex Herbert resolved RNG-120.
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    Fix Version/s: 1.3
       Resolution: Implemented

In git master.

> Fix security issues in serialization code for Random instances
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>                 Key: RNG-120
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RNG-120
>             Project: Commons RNG
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: core, simple
>    Affects Versions: 1.3
>            Reporter: Alex Herbert
>            Assignee: Alex Herbert
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 1.3
>
>          Time Spent: 40m
>  Remaining Estimate: 0h
>
> SonarCloud has highlighted security issues in the use of serialization to save and restore the state of java.util.Random instances.
> When reading objects using ObjectInputStream.readObject() the class is first identified and the private readObject() method of the class type is executed (if it is present). If the class is a malicious class then potentially malicious code can be executed.
> h2. JDKRandom
> Uses serialisation to save the {{java.util.Random}} instance to the RandomProviderState.
> The code requires that {{java.util.Random}} is read using ObjectInputStream.readObject(). To ensure the code only allows {{java.util.Random}} to be read the code can adapt the [ValidatingObjectInputStream|https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-io/javadocs/api-2.6/org/apache/commons/io/serialization/ValidatingObjectInputStream.html] idea from Commons IO to prevent malicious code execution.
> h2. JDKRandomBridge
> This writes and reads a byte[] using the writeObject and readObject methods of ObjectOutput/InputStream. To avoid use of readObject() the code can be refactored to write the byte[] using the write(byte[]) method of ObjectOutputStream and the readFully(byte[]) method of ObjectInputStream.



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