[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] [15] RFR JDK-8242557: Add length limit for strings in PNGImageWriter

Prasanta Sadhukhan prasanta.sadhukhan at oracle.com
Thu Apr 30 09:21:07 UTC 2020


Hi Jay,

But why reader will read more than 79 bytes from the chunk..It should 
also limit it's reading to 1st 79 bytes (if the chunks we get from 
non-oracle non-standard PNG writer is more than 79bytes) as per spec, no?

Regards
Prasanta
On 30-Apr-20 2:01 PM, Jayathirth D v wrote:
> Hi Prasanta,
>
> Thanks for the review.
> If we consume only 79 bytes and continue writing the image, it will 
> lead to unexpected behaviour when user tries to read the image 
> expecting longer than 79 string data. Our reader is also tightly spec 
> compliant for null terminated strings after JDK-8195841 
> <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8195841> and JDK-8191023 
> <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8191023>. Its better to be 
> spec compliant than leaving things open for interpretation.
>
> Regards,
> Jay
>
>
>> On 29-Apr-2020, at 1:22 PM, Prasanta Sadhukhan 
>> <prasanta.sadhukhan at oracle.com 
>> <mailto:prasanta.sadhukhan at oracle.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jay,
>>
>> Looks good to me . Although I have a question which is, instead of 
>> throwing Exception, can we proceed with 1st 79 bytes of these chunks 
>> and continue?
>>
>> Regards
>> Prasanta
>> On 27-Apr-20 10:51 PM, Philip Race wrote:
>>> I reviewed http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/spec/1.2/PNG-Chunks.html
>>> and I think you covered all the cases.
>>>
>>> I also reviewed the reader and it seems we already check only up to 
>>> 80 chars there.
>>>
>>> I note we assume the same max length of 80 for the language tag for 
>>> iTxt.
>>> The spec. doesn't specify a limit but I think 80 is more than 
>>> generous here.
>>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>> -phil.
>>>
>>> On 4/27/20, 9:59 AM, Jayathirth D v wrote:
>>>> Hello All,
>>>>
>>>> Please review the following fix for JDK 15:
>>>>
>>>> Bug : https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8242557
>>>> Webrev : http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jdv/8242557/webrev.00/ 
>>>> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Ejdv/8242557/webrev.00/>
>>>>
>>>> Issue : PNG specification restricts length of strings in some 
>>>> chunks to 79(http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/spec/1.2/PNG-Chunks.html 
>>>> ) excluding null termination. But our writer implementation has no 
>>>> such check.
>>>> Solution : Add checks in different chunks where there must be 
>>>> restrictions.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Jay
>
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