[jira] [Closed] (THRIFT-1205) port server unduly fragile with arbitrary input

["Bryan Duxbury (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-1205?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Bryan Duxbury closed THRIFT-1205.
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    Resolution: Duplicate

You should make use of the max frame size parameter to protect yourself from situations like these.

> port server unduly fragile with arbitrary input
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: THRIFT-1205
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-1205
>             Project: Thrift
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Java - Library
>    Affects Versions: 0.6.1
>         Environment: javac 1.5.0_19, OS X 10.4.11
>            Reporter: Toby Thain
>            Priority: Critical
>              Labels: security
>
> Telnetting to the port and type a couple of arbitrary characters crashes the server almost immediately as follows. I haven't glanced at the relevant code. Is this reproducible on other platforms?
> {noformat}
> $ ./run-server.sh 
> Starting the simple server...
> Exception in thread "Thread-0" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
>         at org.apache.thrift.protocol.TBinaryProtocol.readStringBody(TBinaryProtocol.java:353)
>         at org.apache.thrift.protocol.TBinaryProtocol.readMessageBegin(TBinaryProtocol.java:215)
>         at SimonSays$Processor.process(Unknown Source)
>         at org.apache.thrift.server.TSimpleServer.serve(TSimpleServer.java:70)
>         at JavaServer.simple(Unknown Source)
>         at JavaServer$1.run(Unknown Source)
>         at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:613)
> {noformat}

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