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Limit the maximum nesting depth when parsing to protect against stack
overflow, permitted by https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159#section-9

A nesting depth limit of 10,000 was chosen to be a conservative
balance between avoiding stack overflow and avoiding impacting
legitimate JSON documents.

10,000 is less than 1% of the experimental stack depth limit
with the default stack size:

  • On 64-bit systems, the default stack limit is 1GB,
    which allows ~2,800,000 frames of recursive parsing
  • On 32-bit systems, the default stack limit is 250MB,
    which allows ~1,100,000 frames of recursive parsing

Fixes golang#31789

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Limit the maximum nesting depth when parsing to protect against stack
overflow, permitted by https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159#section-9

A nesting depth limit of 10,000 was chosen to be a conservative
balance between avoiding stack overflow and avoiding impacting
legitimate JSON documents.

10,000 is less than 1% of the experimental stack depth limit
with the default stack size:
* On 64-bit systems, the default stack limit is 1GB,
  which allows ~2,800,000 frames of recursive parsing
* On 32-bit systems, the default stack limit is 250MB,
  which allows ~1,100,000 frames of recursive parsing

Fixes #31789

Change-Id: I4f5a90e89dcb4ab1a957ad9d02e1fa0efafaccf6
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/199837
Run-TryBot: Daniel Martí <[email protected]>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Martí <[email protected]>
@sthagen sthagen merged commit 37d02c9 into sthagen:master Feb 24, 2020
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encoding/json: provide a way to limit recursion depth
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