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Eduardo Aguinaga updated CASSANDRA-12304:
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Summary: Privacy Violation - Heap Inspection (was: Privacy VIolation -
Heap Inspectioni)
> Privacy Violation - Heap Inspection
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> Key: CASSANDRA-12304
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-12304
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Eduardo Aguinaga
>
> Overview:
> In May through June of 2016 a static analysis was performed on version 3.0.5
> of the Cassandra source code. The analysis included an automated analysis
> using HP Fortify v4.21 SCA and a manual analysis utilizing SciTools
> Understand v4. The results of that analysis includes the issue below.
> Issue:
> In the file BulkLoader.java on line 387 a string object is used to store
> sensitive data. String objects are immutable and should not be used to store
> sensitive data. Sensitive data should be stored in char or byte arrays and
> the contents of those arrays should be cleared ASAP. Operations performed on
> string objects will require that the original object be copied and the
> operation be applied in the new copy of the string object. This results in
> the likelihood that multiple copies of sensitive data will be present in the
> heap until garbage collection takes place.
> The snippet below shows the issue on line 387:
> BulkLoader.java, lines 318-387:
> {code:java}
> 318 public String passwd;
> . . .
> 337 public static LoaderOptions parseArgs(String cmdArgs[])
> 338 {
> 339 CommandLineParser parser = new GnuParser();
> 340 CmdLineOptions options = getCmdLineOptions();
> 341 try
> 342 {
> . . .
> 386 if (cmd.hasOption(PASSWD_OPTION))
> 387 opts.passwd = cmd.getOptionValue(PASSWD_OPTION);
> {code}
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