[ARROW-2222] [C++] Add option to validate Flatbuffers messages

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.10.0
• Component/s: C++
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/18186
• Assignee: Marco Neumann
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 26/Feb/18 20:48
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:19
• Resolved: 21/Apr/18 14:35

Description

This is follow up work to ARROW-1589, ARROW-2023, and can be validated by the ipc-fuzzer-test. Users receiving untrusted input streams can prevent segfaults this way

As part of this, we should quantify the overhead associated with message validation in regular use

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1763