> On apr 29, 2016, 10:56 a.m., David Faure wrote:
> > This is not about trust and attacks, this is about not allocating 4 GB of 
> > RAM when reading a corrupted binary file.

That will only happen if the file or stream is 4 GB. `QDataStream 
&operator>>(QDataStream &in, QString &str)` allocates while reading in 1 MiB 
chunks.


- Jos


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On apr 29, 2016, 10:22 a.m., Jos van den Oever wrote:
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> (Updated apr 29, 2016, 10:22 a.m.)
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> 
> Review request for KDE Frameworks, David Faure and Milian Wolff.
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> 
> Repository: kservice
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> 
> Description
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> 
> Writing KBuildSycoca is done with <<. Up till now there were special 'safe' 
> functions for reading QString and QStringList. They only limited the size of 
> QString and the number of allowed entries in QStringList. The cache file is 
> created by the trusted system. If file size is an attack vector, these safe 
> functions are useful and we should keep them.
> 
> This patch is three commits:
> 
> 1)  Use the standard read function for reading QStringList
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> 
> 2)  Use the standard read function for reading QString
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> 
> 3)  Remove redundant #include
>     
>     ksycocaentry.h is included via kservice.h
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> 
> Diffs
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>   src/CMakeLists.txt f4d09d5 
>   src/services/kservicegroup.h c046314 
>   src/services/kservicetypefactory.cpp 2edc57c 
>   src/sycoca/kctimefactory.cpp a8c7846 
>   src/sycoca/ksycoca.cpp 5d43ef4 
>   src/sycoca/ksycoca_p.h 119c3ee 
>   src/sycoca/ksycocaentry.cpp 5fbd158 
>   src/sycoca/ksycocautils.cpp 84998b7 
>   src/sycoca/ksycocautils_p.h aad9d50 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/127786/diff/
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> 
> Testing
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> 
> All tests still pass.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jos van den Oever
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