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    • Sub-task
    • Status: Closed
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 10.11.1.1
    • 10.12.1.1
    • SQL
    • None

    Description

      While writing XXE vulnerability test suites for XmlVTI, I found that
      some of the error handling logic in XmlVTI is a bit rough and could
      be made a bit smoother.

      At least the following improvements would be useful:

      1) Remove the unconditional printStackTrace call in XmlVTI.next()
      when it catches a Throwable.

      2) Chain the original exception to the SQLException using the
      SQLException constructor which takes a "cause" argument.

      3) Include an XMLErrorHandler class so that fatal exceptions that
      arise within the XML parser don't directly print their own messages
      to System.err, to avoid printing

      [junit] [Fatal Error] :1:1: The parser has encountered more than "64,000" entity expansions in this document; this is the limit imposed by the application.

      4) Close the _xmlResource input stream, if it exists, from the
      XMLErrorHandler methods, so that the parser's files are closed
      sooner and we are (I think) less likely to encounter

      [junit] <assertDirectoryDeleted> attempt 1 left 2 files/dirs behind: 0=extin\xmlOptimizerXXE2.trace 1=extin
      [junit] <assertDirectoryDeleted> attempt 2 left 2 files/dirs behind: 0=extin\xmlOptimizerXXE2.trace 1=extin
      [junit] <assertDirectoryDeleted> attempt 3 left 2 files/dirs behind: 0=extin\xmlOptimizerXXE2.trace 1=extin
      [junit] <assertDirectoryDeleted> attempt 4 left 2 files/dirs behind: 0=extin\xmlOptimizerXXE2.trace 1=extin

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