A 32-bit length field read from the wire by CBUtil.readValue (and its
siblings) flowed directly into new byte[length] with no upper bound,
allowing an unauthenticated client to drive the JVM into
OutOfMemoryError: 'Requested array size exceeds VM limit' — and, with
the default -XX:OnOutOfMemoryError=kill -9 %p, terminate the process —
by declaring Integer.MAX_VALUE as the SASL-token length in AUTH_RESPONSE.
Guard the allocation in the single private readRawBytes(ByteBuf, int)
that all int32-length readers funnel through, rejecting lengths that
exceed the buffer's readable bytes with a ProtocolException.
patch by Francisco Guerrero; reviewed by Stefan Miklosovic for CASSANDRA-21521
Use a single one-time scheduled task with two tick-tock buffers to recycle metric IDs after a sufficiently long delay.
Use phantom references for ThreadLocalMetrics cleanup ony if it is needed to reduce the references processing overhead.
patch by Dmitry Konstantinov; reviewed by Benedict Elliott Smith for CASSANDRA-21475
nodetool getendpoints is deprecated. Also, all StorageServiceMBean.getNaturalEndpoints* methods are
deprecated and they call their replica counterparts. The deprecated methods are also not used directly anywhere
in the code (nor tests).
patch by Stefan Miklosovic; reviewed by Brandon Williams for CASSANDRA-17665
Cassandra resolves pluggable extensions by class name from configuration, schema, and tooling
inputs. These names were loaded with an initializing Class.forName(name) and type-checked only
afterward, so the named class ran its static initializer before its type was confirmed. After this
change such classes will be loaded without initialization, verified against the expected interface or
base class, and initialized only through normal use after validation.
A shared FBUtilities.classForNameWithoutInitialization helper and typed
instanceOrConstruct/construct overloads apply this to the configurable extension points loaded by
class name: the authentication, authorization, role-management, network and
internode-authenticator backends, the partitioner, audit logger, configuration loader, seed provider,
snitch, abstract types, secondary and custom indexes, compaction strategy, compressor, replication
strategy, SASI analyzers, key and cache providers, query handler, storage and stream hooks, tracing,
the JMX authorization proxy, MBeans, the monotonic clock, nodetool Sjk, triggers, the
sstableloader and stress class options, and diagnostic event classes (loaded without initialization
and checked against DiagnosticEvent, preserving the InvalidClassException contract and the existing
package restriction).
Regression tests confirm that an invalid-type load is rejected without initializing the target
class, and that valid implementations still resolve.
Hadoop client integration and hard-coded JDK and internal class probes are left unchanged.
patch by Jeremiah Jordan; reviewed by Stefan Miklosovic for CASSANDRA-21525
Francisco Guerrero