RFR: 8280409: JarFile::verifiableEntry can fail with NPE accessing ze.getName()
Lance Andersen
lancea at openjdk.java.net
Mon Feb 7 20:20:05 UTC 2022
On Mon, 7 Feb 2022 18:44:10 GMT, Sean Mullan <mullan at openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Looking at this a bit more, it looks like `JariFile::initializeVerifier` is the only place currently in `JarFile` that could throw a `JarException` and that method could be called from `JarFile::getInputStream`
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>> As `verifiableEntry` is only called from `JarFile::getInputStream `and this change validates the `ZipEntry` for being null, which is should, the only other possible error would be in the unlikely event. `ZipEntry` was subclassed passed into `JarFile::getInputStream` resulting in the call to `ZipEntry::getName` returning null(in which case `ZipFile::getEntry` will return a `NullPointerException`) or the name being invalid resulting once again in a possible null value for the returned `ZipEntry` from `JarFile::getJarEntry` (which calls `ZipFile::getEntry`)
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>> I am still leaning towards a `ZipException`, not a `JarException`, thrown from `verifiableEntry`.
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>> That being said, I will go with whatever the consensus is.
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> If you are pretty sure the only other case are as above, I wonder if a simpler fix would be to change `verifiableEntry()` to check for these null cases and throw a `ZipException` which will get directly propagated by `getInputStream()`?
I can certainly throw a ZipException from `verifiableEntry`. I am a bit reluctant to not catch any other `Exception` and then throw a `ZipException` from `getInputStream()` as it is certainly possible of encountering some other issue due to some stray value in the CEN.
So I will update `verifiableEntry` to validate `ZipEntry` and` ZipEntry::getName()` potential issues
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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7348
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