Add an expansion limit for entities

Recursively defined entities can easily exhaust all available
memory. Limit entity expansion to a default of 4096 characters to
avoid DoS attacks when a user loads untrusted content.

Added a setter and getter to allow modifying the expansion limit.

[ChangeLog][QtCore][QXmlStream] QXmlStreamReader does now by default
limit the expansion of entities to 4096 characters. Documents where
a single entity expands to more characters than the limit are not
considered well formed. The limit is there to avoid DoS attacks through
recursively expanding entities when loading untrusted content. The
limit can be changed through the QXmlStreamReader::setEntityExpansionLimit()
method.

Fixes: QTBUG-47417
Change-Id: I94387815d74fcf34783e136387ee57fac5ded0c9
Reviewed-by: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Volker Hilsheimer <volker.hilsheimer@qt.io>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/corelib/serialization/qxmlstream_p.h b/src/corelib/serialization/qxmlstream_p.h
index 9c94e6d434..103b123b10 100644
--- a/src/corelib/serialization/qxmlstream_p.h
+++ b/src/corelib/serialization/qxmlstream_p.h
@@ -774,9 +774,19 @@ public:
     QHash<QStringView, Entity> entityHash;
     QHash<QStringView, Entity> parameterEntityHash;
     QXmlStreamSimpleStack<Entity *>entityReferenceStack;
+    int entityExpansionLimit = 4096;
+    int entityLength = 0;
     inline bool referenceEntity(Entity &entity) {
         if (entity.isCurrentlyReferenced) {
-            raiseWellFormedError(QXmlStream::tr("Recursive entity detected."));
+            raiseWellFormedError(QXmlStream::tr("Self-referencing entity detected."));
+            return false;
+        }
+        // entityLength represents the amount of additional characters the
+        // entity expands into (can be negative for e.g. &amp;). It's used to
+        // avoid DoS attacks through recursive entity expansions
+        entityLength += entity.value.size() - entity.name.size() - 2;
+        if (entityLength > entityExpansionLimit) {
+            raiseWellFormedError(QXmlStream::tr("Entity expands to more characters than the entity expansion limit."));
             return false;
         }
         entity.isCurrentlyReferenced = true;
@@ -1308,6 +1318,8 @@ bool QXmlStreamReaderPrivate::parse()
 
         case 10:
             entityReferenceStack.pop()->isCurrentlyReferenced = false;
+            if (entityReferenceStack.isEmpty())
+                entityLength = 0;
             clearSym();
         break;