In fact I am using spark-sql which is
 using Arrow so I am not quite sure since I am not using It directly.

Thank you!

Roberto

El mié., 31 ago. 2022 17:45, Andrew Lamb <[email protected]> escribió:

> There are some cases (e.g. arrow flight, and the .arrow / IPC file format)
> that can come from other sources, but that depends on your usecase
>
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 11:35 AM Roberto Diaz <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Ok thank you very much.. I guess that if Arrow uses flatbuffers to
>> serialize schemas an metadata for IPC that is going to come always from a
>> trusted source (from Arrow itself I guess) so no security risks here.
>>
>> Thank you very much!
>>
>> Roberto.
>>
>> El mié., 31 ago. 2022 16:04, Andrew Lamb <[email protected]> escribió:
>>
>>> This advisory is related to the Rust implementation of Arrow. I do not
>>> think there are any exploitable vulnerabilities in arrow due to the
>>> underlying flatbuffers dependency.
>>>
>>> The TLDR is that if an application accepts data that claims to be in the
>>> Arrow in memory format from an untrusted source, it is a security risk: The
>>> arrow implementation does not do additional validation (including on the
>>> embedded flatbuffers) for performance reasons.
>>>
>>> The way one signals this "the input data must be trusted" property in
>>> Rust is to mark the API as `unsafe`. The arrow-rs API marks APIs for
>>> reading Arrow from external formats as unsafe (and please let us know if
>>> you find any examples to the contrary)
>>>
>>> The specific vulnerability reported basically says that the underlying
>>> flatbuffers APIs are not correctly marked as unsafe thus learning to
>>> potentially masked vulnerabilities if users take input from trusted sources.
>>>
>>> Andrew
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 9:26 AM Roberto Diaz <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello dear Arrow user members.
>>>>
>>>> I am writting to you due to this reported flatbuffers vulnerability:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3jch-9qgp-4844
>>>>
>>>> It seems there is not fix up yo now.
>>>>
>>>> I wonder if this is affecting apache arrow somehow.. i can read the
>>>> following:
>>>>
>>>> https://arrow.apache.org/faq/
>>>>
>>>> The Arrow file format does use Flatbuffers under the hood to serialize
>>>> schemas and other metadata needed to implement the Arrow binary IPC
>>>> protocol, but the Arrow data format uses its own representation for optimal
>>>> access and computation.
>>>>
>>>> I wonder if someone has analysed this vulnerability for apache arrow.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you very much and best regards
>>>>
>>>> Roberto.
>>>>
>>>

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