iemejia commented on code in PR #3864:
URL: https://github.com/apache/avro/pull/3864#discussion_r3567357053
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lang/perl/lib/Avro/BinaryDecoder.pm:
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@@ -380,6 +626,12 @@ sub unsigned_varint {
my $more;
my $shift = 0;
do {
+ # A 64-bit value uses at most 10 bytes (shifts 0..63); reject an
overlong
+ # varint rather than reading an unbounded continuation chain and
letting
+ # $shift overflow into a garbage value.
+ if ($shift >= 70) {
+ throw Avro::Schema::Error::Parse("Varint is too long");
+ }
$reader->read(my $buf, 1);
my $byte = ord $buf;
Review Comment:
Fixed — `unsigned_varint` now checks the `$reader->read` return value and
throws a parse error on a short/EOF read, instead of letting `ord ""` == 0
silently decode truncated input as a valid 0 byte.
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