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ASF GitHub Bot commented on KAFKA-4493: --------------------------------------- GitHub user taku-k opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/2408 KAFKA-4493: Validate a plaintext client connection to a SSL broker When a SSL Alert protocol is received from the broker by sending a request from a client, `InvalidTransportLayerException` is raised from `selector.poll`. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/taku-k/kafka taku-k/KAFKA-4493 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/2408.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #2408 ---- commit 2fd95ae8b886075f7aefef32777de52547c9f740 Author: Takuya Kuwahara <taaku...@gmail.com> Date: 2017-01-19T18:21:06Z validate a plaintext client connection to a SSL broker commit 51fa608083b4feefb21f4375d6eb591bf477b834 Author: Takuya Kuwahara <taaku...@gmail.com> Date: 2017-01-19T18:39:51Z add comment ---- > Connections to Kafka brokers should be validated > ------------------------------------------------ > > Key: KAFKA-4493 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-4493 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Ismael Juma > > There have been a few reports of Kafka clients throwing an OOM because they > read 4 bytes from the stream and then use that to allocate a ByteBuffer > without validating that they are using the right security protocol or even > communicating with a Kafka broker. > It would be good to perform some validation in order to show a useful error > message to the user instead of the OOM. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)