Fix BSON binary subtype 0x02 and check the declared document size earlier (#5930)

* Write and read the inner length of BSON binary subtype 0x02

The BSON specification defines the payload of the "binary (old)" subtype
0x02 as an int32 followed by that many bytes. to_bson wrote the plain
payload instead, so decoders such as pymongo and libbson-based readers
rejected the bytes, and from_bson returned the inner length as part of the
payload (documented as lenient behavior in gh-5333).

The writer now emits the outer length (payload + 4), the subtype, the inner
int32 holding the payload size, and the payload. The reader requires an
outer length of at least 4 and an inner length equal to the outer length
minus 4 (the cases the bson-corpus lists as decode errors), reports parse
error 112 otherwise, and returns only the payload. Both directions change
together so that the round trip keeps working.

The single-reservation fast path for scalar entries declines subtype 0x02
because it has no room for the inner length.

This is a deliberate exception to the opt-in rule for behavior changes:
the previous output was invalid BSON.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Check the declared BSON document size before reading its content

The BSON reader compared a document's declared size with the number of bytes
read only when it reached the terminator. The declared size never bounded
the reads, so a SAX handler saw the keys and values of a document whose size
was too small before parse error 112 was reported.

The container frame now stores the position where the document ends
according to its declared size. open_bson_document rejects a size below 5
(size prefix plus terminator) and an embedded document that does not end
before the terminator of its enclosing document; the element loop rejects an
element whose type byte leaves no room for the name terminator and the
document terminator. The terminator check stays and still catches a declared
size that is too large. No input that was accepted before is rejected now;
documents with a wrong size are reported earlier, with fewer SAX events, a
different byte position and, in three cases, a different message. The error
id (parse_error.112) is unchanged and strict=false still does not skip the
check.

The tests that asserted the old messages and positions are updated, with the
outer sizes of two inputs corrected so that they still exercise the embedded
document. New tests cover the SAX events, a size below 5, and an embedded
document that fits exactly.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Document BSON subtype 0x02, document size checks, and lenient reads

Describe the inner length of binary subtype 0x02 that to_bson now writes and
from_bson checks and removes. Add the document size checks (parse_error.112,
not affected by strict=false) to bson.md and from_bson.md, and extend the
list of lenient reads with the UUID and MD5 payload lengths (not checked),
duplicate keys (last value wins), embedded NUL bytes in strings, and the
ignored trailing bytes with strict=false. State that the members of an object
are written in iteration order.

Correct the statement that element names are never validated on read: they
are checked and sanitized like string values by the error handler. Add the
BSON message to the examples of out_of_range.415 and type_error.321, the
subtype limit of 255 to the binary values page, CBOR to the formats that use
byte_container_with_subtype, and fix a typo in the incomplete mapping box.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Regenerate single_include and apply astyle

Result of make amalgamate (including make pretty) for the preceding changes.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Address review of the BSON documentation

Describe exactly when a too small document size is detected and note that subtype 2 data written by earlier versions is not readable.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* docs: use the Oxford comma, drop discarded-value remarks

Add the serial comma in a list added by this PR and remove the BSON
example of type_error.321 (with the type_error.317 remark) so the docs do
not mention discarded values for BSON; restore the original singular
heading of that section. No tables were changed by this PR.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Fix -Weffc++ in the BSON recorder test and a clang-tidy use-auto hit

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Fix clang-tidy readability-redundant-member-init in BSON test

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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@@ -17702,6 +17702,9 @@ class binary_reader
/// UBJSON/BJData: the type marker of an optimized container, so that
/// its elements are read without one of their own; 0 otherwise
char_int_type type_marker;
/// BSON: the position right after this document, according to the
/// size it declares
std::size_t end_position = 0;
/// BSON: the size this document declares, in bytes
std::int32_t declared_size = 0;
/// whether to close this container with end_object() or end_array()
@@ -17838,6 +17841,23 @@ class binary_reader
return false;
}
// the smallest document is the size prefix and the terminator
if (JSON_HEDLEY_UNLIKELY(document_size < 5))
{
return bson_document_size_error("document size ", document_size, " is less than 5");
}
// the declared size bounds where the document ends: an embedded
// document must end before the terminator of the document that contains it
const auto unsigned_size = static_cast<std::size_t>(document_size);
const std::size_t document_end = unsigned_size > (std::numeric_limits<std::size_t>::max)() - document_start
? (std::numeric_limits<std::size_t>::max)()
: document_start + unsigned_size;
if (JSON_HEDLEY_UNLIKELY(!container_stack.empty() && document_end >= container_stack.back().end_position))
{
return bson_document_size_error("document size ", document_size, " exceeds the size of the enclosing document");
}
if (JSON_HEDLEY_UNLIKELY(!enter_container(is_object, detail::unknown_size())))
{
return false;
@@ -17845,6 +17865,7 @@ class binary_reader
container_frame& frame = container_stack.back();
frame.start_position = document_start;
frame.end_position = document_end;
frame.declared_size = document_size;
return true;
}
@@ -17903,6 +17924,13 @@ class binary_reader
return false;
}
// an element needs at least its name's terminator, and the
// document its own terminator, within the declared size
if (JSON_HEDLEY_UNLIKELY(chars_read + 2 > container_stack.back().end_position))
{
return bson_document_size_error("document size ", container_stack.back().declared_size, " is too small for its content");
}
const std::size_t element_type_parse_position = chars_read;
key.clear();
if (JSON_HEDLEY_UNLIKELY(!get_bson_cstr(key)))
@@ -18051,9 +18079,46 @@ class binary_reader
}
result.set_subtype(subtype);
// the "old binary" subtype 0x02 starts with an int32 that repeats the
// size of the payload following it; the payload does not include it
if (subtype == 0x02)
{
return get_bson_old_binary(len, result);
}
return get_binary(len, result);
}
/*!
@brief Parses the payload of a BSON binary value with subtype 0x02.
@param[in] len The length of the binary value, including the inner int32.
@param[in,out] result A reference to the binary variable where the payload
(without the inner int32) is to be stored.
@pre len >= 0
@return `true` if the inner length was present and matches @a len
*/
template<typename NumberType>
bool get_bson_old_binary(const NumberType len, binary_t& result)
{
if (JSON_HEDLEY_UNLIKELY(len < 4))
{
return bson_length_error("length of binary subtype 0x02 must be at least 4, is ", len, "binary");
}
std::int32_t inner_length{};
if (JSON_HEDLEY_UNLIKELY((!get_number<std::int32_t, true>(inner_length))))
{
return false;
}
if (JSON_HEDLEY_UNLIKELY(static_cast<std::int64_t>(inner_length) != static_cast<std::int64_t>(len) - 4))
{
return bson_length_error("inner length of binary subtype 0x02 does not match the payload size; inner length is ", inner_length, "binary");
}
return get_binary(inner_length, result);
}
/*!
@brief Read a BSON document element of the given @a element_type.
@param[in] element_type The BSON element type, c.f. http://bsonspec.org/spec.html
@@ -21866,6 +21931,12 @@ class binary_reader
return last_byte_error(exception_id::unexpected_byte, concat("document size ", std::to_string(document_size), " does not match the number of bytes read (", std::to_string(bytes_read), ")"), "document");
}
JSON_HEDLEY_NEVER_INLINE
bool bson_document_size_error(const char* prefix, const std::int32_t document_size, const char* suffix) const
{
return last_byte_error(exception_id::unexpected_byte, concat(prefix, std::to_string(document_size), suffix), "document");
}
JSON_HEDLEY_NEVER_INLINE
bool bson_unsupported_type_error(const std::size_t position, const char_int_type element_type) const
{
@@ -28045,7 +28116,15 @@ class binary_writer
throw_subtype_out_of_range(value.subtype(), "the BSON binary subtype", j);
}
return sizeof(std::int32_t) + value.size() + 1ul;
// the "old binary" subtype 0x02 repeats the payload size in an inner
// int32 in front of the payload
return sizeof(std::int32_t) + (is_bson_old_binary(value) ? sizeof(std::int32_t) : 0ul) + value.size() + 1ul;
}
/// @return whether @a value has the BSON subtype 0x02 ("binary (old)")
static bool is_bson_old_binary(const binary_t& value) noexcept
{
return value.has_subtype() && value.subtype() == 0x02;
}
/*!
@@ -28058,10 +28137,18 @@ class binary_writer
{
write_bson_entry_header(name, 0x05);
write_number<std::int32_t>(to_bson_length(value.size()), true);
const bool old_binary = is_bson_old_binary(value);
// the length field counts the inner int32 of the old binary subtype
write_number<std::int32_t>(to_bson_length(value.size() + (old_binary ? sizeof(std::int32_t) : 0ul)), true);
write_number(value.has_subtype() ? static_cast<std::uint8_t>(value.subtype()) : static_cast<std::uint8_t>(0x00));
if (old_binary)
{
write_number<std::int32_t>(to_bson_length(value.size()), true);
}
write_bytes(value.data(), value.size());
}
@@ -28221,7 +28308,8 @@ class binary_writer
(or the header of a string or binary value) in one reservation
@return whether the entry was written; false for a discarded value, a
string or binary value whose length does not fit the length
field, in which case nothing was written
field, or a binary value with subtype 0x02, in which case nothing
was written
@pre @a name is at most bson_scalar_max_name_size characters long and is
not changed by the error handler
*/
@@ -28282,7 +28370,9 @@ class binary_writer
if (j.is_binary())
{
const binary_t& value = *j.m_data.m_value.binary;
if (JSON_HEDLEY_UNLIKELY(!value_in_range_of<std::int32_t>(value.size())))
// the old binary subtype 0x02 has an inner length that the single
// reservation has no room for; write_bson_binary writes it
if (JSON_HEDLEY_UNLIKELY(!value_in_range_of<std::int32_t>(value.size()) || is_bson_old_binary(value)))
{
return false;
}