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Anders Morken updated DERBY-1392:
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Derby Info: [Patch Available]
> Corner case behaviour in RAFContainer#writePage() can cause invalid data to be written
to data files
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>
> Key: DERBY-1392
> URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-1392
> Project: Derby
> Type: Bug
> Components: Store
> Versions: 10.1.2.0
> Environment: Platforms that throw an IOException when writing beyond the EOF, but permit
the write to proceed if the file is padded, then written.
> Reporter: Anders Morken
> Assignee: Anders Morken
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 10.2.0.0
> Attachments: DERBY-1392-1.patch
>
> java/engine/org/apache/derby/impl/store/raw/data/RAFContainer.java#writePage(...) will
> attempt to retry a write if an IOException is thrown on the first attempt. However, the
next
> attempt does not add container header data to the first page, nor does it encrypt the
data
> if the database is encrypted.
> I'd expect this bug to be case silent corruption of encrypted databases if the code path
> was actually exercised. The fact that this bug still lives and nobody has discovered
it is
> possibly an indication of how uncommon this code path is. Since the comment in the code
> says nothing about exactly what platforms the workaround was intended for, I don't know
if
> these platforms are still supported for Derby. There's also a workaround for an EPOC
Java
> bug earlier in the code - EPOC only had a Java 1.1 VM, which is no longer supported.
> I'll attach a patch for the issue, but I wonder if we might as well remove the "retry
code path"
> if it is never used?
> (If you're paranoid, this could also be considered a security issue. If someone could
> cause IO errors for Derby at will, they could make Derby write the database without
> encryption - but there are far easier ways to attack Derby if you've got that kind of
> access, so I'm discounting that. =)
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