Bug 1600900 - [GSS](6.4.z) StackOverflowError due to the bug XERCESJ-589
Summary: [GSS](6.4.z) StackOverflowError due to the bug XERCESJ-589
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6
Classification: JBoss
Component: XML Frameworks
Version: 6.4.20
Hardware: All
OS: All
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: CR1
: EAP 6.4.21
Assignee: jboss-set
QA Contact: Peter Mackay
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Blocks: eap6421-payload 1602226 1602536
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Reported: 2018-07-13 10:29 UTC by Lami Akagwu
Modified: 2021-12-10 16:38 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
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Clone Of:
: 1602536 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2019-08-19 12:43:06 UTC
Type: Bug
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
reproducer (16.53 KB, application/zip)
2018-07-13 10:29 UTC, Lami Akagwu 		no flags Details
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Issue Tracker JBPAPP-9156 0 Major Closed Fix XERCESJ-589 in JBoss EAP 5.1.x 2020-04-01 02:55:14 UTC
Red Hat Knowledge Base (Solution) 3528391 0 None None None 2018-07-13 10:31:08 UTC

Description Lami Akagwu 2018-07-13 10:29:15 UTC 
Created attachment 1458695 [details]
reproducer

Description of problem:
 application server crashes with a StackOverflowError due to a bug in the xerces library  (xercesImpl-2.9.1.redhat-6.jar) which is integrated into 
The issue is well known as XERCESJ-589 (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESJ-589) and  arises  during validation of XML data containing long strings.  

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
EAP 6.4.20.

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Deploy attachment in EAP 6.4.x instance
2. Boot up EAP 6.4.x
3.

Actual results:
EAP logs contains
11:20:17,546 INFO  [org.jboss.as.ejb3.deployment.processors.EjbJndiBindingsDeploymentUnitProcessor] (MSC service thread 1-5) JNDI bindings for session bean named XMLValidationTest in deployment unit subdeployment "ejb_pack_1.jar" of deployment "Reproducer.ear" are as follows:

	java:global/testApp/ejb_pack_1/XMLValidationTest!framework.application.XMLValidationTest
	java:app/ejb_pack_1/XMLValidationTest!framework.application.XMLValidationTest
	java:module/XMLValidationTest!framework.application.XMLValidationTest
	java:global/testApp/ejb_pack_1/XMLValidationTest
	java:app/ejb_pack_1/XMLValidationTest
	java:module/XMLValidationTest

11:20:17,806 FATAL [framework.application.XMLValidationTest] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 50) Error: java.lang.StackOverflowError
	at org.apache.xerces.impl.xpath.regex.REUtil.isHighSurrogate(REUtil.java:40)
	at org.apache.xerces.impl.xpath.regex.RegularExpression.matchString(RegularExpression.java:1667)
	at org.apache.xerces.impl.xpath.regex.RegularExpression.matchString(RegularExpression.java:1879)
	at org.apache.xerces.impl.xpath.regex.RegularExpression.matchString(RegularExpression.java:1905)
	at org.apache.xerces.impl.xpath.regex.RegularExpression.matchString(RegularExpression.java:1879)
	at org.apache.xerces.impl.xpath.regex.RegularExpression.matchString(RegularExpression.java:1905)


Expected results:
Successful validation

Additional info:

Works in EAP 7.1.3
Initially fixed in EAP 5.2. ref https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBPAPP-9156
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