[Interest] Is it safe to use QDataStream to parse data from untrusted source?

[Thiago Macieira]

On Thursday, 12 May 2022 08:30:16 PDT Alexander Dyagilev wrote:
> Is it safe to use QDataStream? E.g. can it crash / stack overflow / etc.
> on malformed data?

It's not safe.

The XML, CBOR, and JSON parsers can parse untrusted data and are tested by the 
Google Fuzzer project to ensure we keep them that way.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Cloud Software Architect - Intel DCAI Cloud Engineering