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Refactor Type1 font parsing to use Type1Subroutines - #737

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved width detection for Type 1 fonts that use nested subroutines. Width results are consistent regardless of subroutine order and when parsing is repeated, helping ensure more reliable font metrics and text placement.

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Walkthrough

Type 1 subroutine widths are resolved on demand and cached. The parser registers subroutine locations and requests widths during callsubr handling. Tests cover nested subroutine resolution and reuse across parser instances.

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Type 1 subroutine width resolution

Layer / File(s) Summary
Subroutine registration and width storage
src/main/java/org/verapdf/pd/font/type1/Type1Subroutines.java, src/main/java/org/verapdf/pd/font/type1/Type1PrivateParser.java, src/main/java/org/verapdf/pd/font/type1/BaseCharStringParser.java
Type1PrivateParser registers subroutine locations with Type1Subroutines. The new class parses subroutines on demand, caches widths, and tracks active resolution depth. Parser state and constructors now use Type1Subroutines instead of a width map.
Width lookup during charstring parsing
src/main/java/org/verapdf/pd/font/type1/Type1CharStringParser.java, src/test/java/org/verapdf/pd/font/type1/Type1CharStringParserTest.java
callsubr retrieves widths through Type1Subroutines. Tests check nested resolution when registration order differs from call order, and check reuse across parser instances.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Refactor

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Type1PrivateParser
  participant Type1Subroutines
  participant Type1CharStringParser
  Type1PrivateParser->>Type1Subroutines: Register subroutine location and lenIV
  Type1CharStringParser->>Type1Subroutines: Request width for subroutine number
  Type1Subroutines->>Type1CharStringParser: Parse registered subroutine stream
  Type1CharStringParser-->>Type1Subroutines: Return parsed width
  Type1Subroutines-->>Type1CharStringParser: Return cached width
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 65231

External integrations using the former constructors may fail to compile, and malformed fonts can leave stream resources open. Address these issues before merging unless the compatibility break is explicitly accepted.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 5cc97

Recursion and cycle controls limit ordinary resolution, but exceptional parsing can leave owned streams unclosed, and hitting the recursion limit can permanently suppress widths for later glyphs. These risks are concentrated in Type 1 font processing; broader operational exposure remains uncertain.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: Lazy resolution opens an owned subroutine filter stream without exception-safe closure. If nested parser construction or parsing fails, resolution bookkeeping is restored but the stream is not closed. Unlike the former eager try-with-resources path, this can retain file-user references and delay file or temporary-file release for file-backed input. Repeated failures could therefore undermine process-level resource containment; an attacker-triggered exhaustion outcome has not been verified.
  • Medium · reliability · observed: A depth-limited dependency returns null, which its enclosing subroutines can cache permanently as having no width. Later shallow calls then cannot recover those widths. A chain declared in dependency-first order could resolve through the former eager width map, whereas the new resolver can suppress its results after a deep first call. This turns a bounded, transient resolution failure into persistent degraded state affecting subsequent glyphs in the same font. A downstream security bypass is not established.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — A crafted font can influence subroutine identifiers, lengths, decoding parameters, and dependency order. Width-cache effects are scoped to that font’s resolver. Exceptional file-backed stream retention could extend the impact to resources of the hosting process across repeated inputs; tenant, service, and environment exposure are not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — The availability-relevant path is supplied font data to lazy subroutine opening, then exceptional nested parsing that bypasses normal stream closure. A retained child file-user reference can prevent final file closure or temporary-file deletion. This is a supported ownership-risk inference, not a verified exhaustion exploit or a retained Security finding.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Resolution checks cached results, active cycles, registration, and a depth limit of 100 before opening another subroutine. These checks bound recursive traversal, but depth-limit and active-cycle exits share the null result used for completed no-width parsing. Type 2 callsubr and callgsubr continue through their separate CFFIndex execution path.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Negative results persist across later glyphs. Because callers can cache null after a dependency was skipped at the recursion limit, failure containment is not confined to the initiating deep traversal: later shallow requests can inherit its degraded result. The source establishes omitted-width behavior, not its downstream security consequences.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Make child-stream ownership exception-safe and distinguish completed no-width results from interrupted resolution. Cache only definitive results, with an explicit policy for depth-limit and cycle outcomes. Validate these invariants through failure, retry, and later shallow resolution.
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src/test/java/org/verapdf/pd/font/type1/Type1CharStringParserTest.java (1)

27-49: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

The test name claims order independence but only covers one order.

The test name says "regardless of subr order". The test registers subroutines in one order only. The outer subroutine 2240 sits first in the source and the inner subroutine 2245 sits second. Add a second case with the reverse registration or call order. This will cover the claim in the test name and the PR stack description.

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Extend resolvesWidthThroughNestedSubrsRegardlessOfSubrOrder with a second
scenario that reverses the subroutine registration or call order, and verify it
still resolves the same width. Keep the existing scenario intact.

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- Around line 27-49: Extend resolvesWidthThroughNestedSubrsRegardlessOfSubrOrder
with a second scenario that reverses the subroutine registration or call order,
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🟡 Minor · Close the lazy subroutine stream on parser failure. · Type1Subroutines.java:63-67

src/main/java/org/verapdf/pd/font/type1/Type1Subroutines.java:63-67
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Close the lazy subroutine stream on parser failure.

Type1CharStringParser parses during construction. If parsing throws, BaseCharStringParser.clear() is not reached. The stream opened at subroutine.open(source) then remains open and can retain a shared file-user reference. Wrap the opened stream in try-with-resources.

Suggested fix
-            Type1CharStringParser parser = new Type1CharStringParser(subroutine.open(source), this);
-            width = parser.getWidth();
+            try (ASInputStream opened = subroutine.open(source)) {
+                Type1CharStringParser parser = new Type1CharStringParser(opened, this);
+                width = parser.getWidth();
+            }
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Review comment at @src/main/java/org/verapdf/pd/font/type1/Type1Subroutines.java
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Update the subroutine parsing flow in Type1Subroutines to open the stream with
try-with-resources, and construct Type1CharStringParser using that stream so it
is closed even if parsing during construction fails.

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- Around line 43-45: Restore the original constructor contracts while keeping
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- Around line 63-67: Update the subroutine parsing flow in Type1Subroutines to
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Comment on lines +43 to +45
Type1CharStringParser(ASInputStream decodedCharString, Type1Subroutines subroutines)
throws IOException {
super(decodedCharString, subroutines);

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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#!/bin/bash
# Inspect declared API policy and references outside the Type 1 package.
rg -n -C 3 'BaseCharStringParser|Type1CharStringParser' README.md src pom.xml

Repository: veraPDF/veraPDF-parser

Length of output: 12370


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#!/bin/bash
set -e
printf '%s\n' '--- constructor diff ---'
git diff --unified=12 4f0c08e5a6aae1344d24a46fa1168f5ce37cbcdc 65231cd49190c8e16d318dffffd7e257575f60ba -- \
  src/main/java/org/verapdf/pd/font/type1/Type1CharStringParser.java \
  src/main/java/org/verapdf/pd/font/type1/BaseCharStringParser.java

printf '%s\n' '--- base Type1CharStringParser constructors ---'
git show 4f0c08e5a6aae1344d24a46fa1168f5ce37cbcdc:src/main/java/org/verapdf/pd/font/type1/Type1CharStringParser.java | nl -ba | sed -n '30,75p'
printf '%s\n' '--- head Type1CharStringParser constructors ---'
git show 65231cd49190c8e16d318dffffd7e257575f60ba:src/main/java/org/verapdf/pd/font/type1/Type1CharStringParser.java | nl -ba | sed -n '30,65p'

printf '%s\n' '--- base BaseCharStringParser constructors ---'
git show 4f0c08e5a6aae1344d24a46fa1168f5ce37cbcdc:src/main/java/org/verapdf/pd/font/type1/BaseCharStringParser.java | nl -ba | sed -n '45,100p'
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printf '%s\n' '--- API markers and module policy ---'
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  'Internal|internal|API|public API|protected|@since|@deprecated|maven-bundle|export-package|automatic-module-name' \
  README.md pom.xml src/main/java/org/verapdf/pd/font/type1 src/main/java/org/verapdf/pd/font/cff || test "$?" -eq 1

Repository: veraPDF/veraPDF-parser

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Preserve externally accessible constructor contracts.

If public and protected constructors are part of the library's supported API, retain the original overloads. The new Type1Subroutines constructors do not preserve source compatibility for callers using Map<Integer, CFFNumber> or subclasses using the six-argument constructor.

Keep the new overloads for internal callers, and retain compatibility overloads with the original signatures and visibility.

📍 Affects 2 files
  • src/main/java/org/verapdf/pd/font/type1/Type1CharStringParser.java#L43-L45 (this comment)
  • src/main/java/org/verapdf/pd/font/type1/BaseCharStringParser.java#L79-L81
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Restore the original constructor contracts while keeping the new
Type1Subroutines overloads for internal callers. In Type1CharStringParser,
retain the original Map<Integer, CFFNumber> constructor with its prior
visibility; in BaseCharStringParser, retain the original six-argument
constructor with its prior visibility. Delegate these compatibility overloads to
the corresponding new constructors.

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