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@pitrou pitrou commented Jan 19, 2026

Rationale for this change

An incorrect variadic buffer count could easily blow up memory when reserving a vector of Buffers, even though the RecordBatch has a lot less buffers available.

Reported by OSS-Fuzz at https://issues.oss-fuzz.com/issues/476180608, and separately by Silas Boch.

What changes are included in this PR?

Pre-validate the variadic buffer count read from the IPC RecordBatch table. Initial patch by Silas Boch.

Are these changes tested?

Yes, by additional fuzz regression file.

Are there any user-facing changes?

No.

This PR contains a "Critical Fix". (If the changes fix either (a) a security vulnerability, (b) a bug that caused incorrect or invalid data to be produced, or (c) a bug that causes a crash (even when the API contract is upheld), please provide explanation. If not, you can remove this.)

@pitrou pitrou force-pushed the check_variadic_buffer_count branch from e3d44d5 to 45e4584 Compare January 19, 2026 15:18
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pitrou commented Jan 19, 2026

@github-actions crossbow submit -g cpp

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pitrou commented Jan 19, 2026

The failure on the ASAN CI job is because #48859 needs to be merged.

@pitrou pitrou added the Critical Fix Bugfixes for security vulnerabilities, crashes, or invalid data. label Jan 19, 2026
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@pitrou pitrou force-pushed the check_variadic_buffer_count branch from 76d9280 to a600573 Compare January 21, 2026 08:22
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pitrou commented Jan 21, 2026

@github-actions crossbow submit -g cpp

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pitrou commented Jan 21, 2026

Rebased, I'll merge if CI is green. Thanks for the review @WillAyd !

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Revision: a600573

Submitted crossbow builds: ursacomputing/crossbow @ actions-23dc77869a

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@pitrou pitrou merged commit 421a475 into apache:main Jan 21, 2026
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After merging your PR, Conbench analyzed the 3 benchmarking runs that have been run so far on merge-commit 421a475.

There were no benchmark performance regressions. 🎉

The full Conbench report has more details. It also includes information about 2 possible false positives for unstable benchmarks that are known to sometimes produce them.

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