[jdk8u-dev] RFR: 8173072: zipfs fails to handle incorrect info-zip "extended timestamp extra field"

[Xin Liu]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2023 22:54:53 GMT, Xin Liu <xliu at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Package nio.zipfs is in demo directory of jdk8u. It is not the part of standard libraries until jdk9. However, we found that some Java8 applications use it and hit a bug. I guess this manifests Hyrum's Law again. 
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> This patch can *NOT* apply to jdk8u cleanly. I need to adjust the directory. I drop the cosmetic changes in nio/zipfs/ZipCoder.java. It helps minimize changeset. If we want to include them, we need to backport other patches. 
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> We test jtreg locally. I reckon the risk is minimal because the patch only adds a few boundary checks in nio/zipfs/EXTT. Without it, zipfs throws java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when it encounters a problematic zip file.

Thanks all for reviewing this patch. 
--lx

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk8u-dev/pull/349#issuecomment-1691982067