[PDFBOX-3320] Statically cached COS objects are mutable

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.11
• Component/s: Parsing
• Assignee: Andreas Lehmkühler
• Reporter: Petras
• Created: 18/Apr/16 17:19
• Updated: 18/Apr/16 17:48
• Resolved: 18/Apr/16 17:48

Description

The range of COSInteger (from -100 to 256) instances, COSBoolean, many COSName instances and COSNull objects are statically cached in corresponding classes. Though such such kind of cached objects are supposed to be immutable, they are not: they inherit and do not block from modification parent COSBase class properties direct and needToBeUpdate. As these are properties are set during parsing and modification, and considered during writing the document, their mutability affects both the objects within the same document (when ex. the same COSNumber value from the cached range is used in different contexts both direct and indirect), as well as other documents, which might parsed and saved using the same classloader.

Issue Links

• duplicates: PDFBOX-2685 COS 'primitive' types are mutable