[CASSANDRA-3017] add a Message size limit

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0-alpha1, 4.0
• Component/s: Legacy/Streaming and Messaging
• Labels: lhf
• Complexity: Low Hanging Fruit
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jonathan Ellis
• Created: 11/Aug/11 04:29
• Updated: 15/May/20 08:04
• Resolved: 13/Jun/19 18:48

Description

We protect the server from allocating huge buffers for malformed message with the Thrift frame size (CASSANDRA-475). But we don't have similar protection for the inter-node Message objects.

Adding this would be good to deal with malicious adversaries as well as a malfunctioning cluster participant.

Issue Links

• Is contained by: CASSANDRA-15066 Improvements to Internode Messaging
• relates to: CASSANDRA-7402 Add metrics to track memory used by client requests