Details
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Bug
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Resolution: Fixed
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Medium
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4.13.0, 4.19.1
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None
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5
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Severity 2 - Major
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0
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Description
Issue Summary
When JIRA Service Management mail handler tries to insert in the database an email that contains the character 0x00 NUL, the issue will not be created and the following error is thrown:
2021-10-20 14:15:28,664+0000 Caesium-1-4 ERROR server@smtp.domain.com [c.a.j.bc.issue.DefaultIssueService] Error creating issue: com.atlassian.jira.exception.CreateException: org.ofbiz.core.entity.GenericEntityException: while inserting: [GenericEntity:Issue][summary,Good news][watches,0][creator,JIRAUSER10000][created,2021-10-20 14:15:28.655][timespent,null][timeoriginalestimate,null][project,10001][description,| ... (ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0x00)) at com.atlassian.jira.issue.managers.DefaultIssueManager.createIssue(DefaultIssueManager.java:586) at com.atlassian.jira.issue.managers.DefaultIssueManager.createIssue(DefaultIssueManager.java:487) [..] Caused by: com.atlassian.jira.exception.DataAccessException: org.ofbiz.core.entity.GenericEntityException: while inserting: [GenericEntity:Issue][summary,Good news][watches,0][creator,JIRAUSER10000][created,2021-10-20 14:15:28.655][timespent,null][timeoriginalestimate,null][project,10001][description,|...
Steps to Reproduce
- Create a JIRA Service Management mail handler
- Send an email with the character NUL (0x00) as part of the subject
Expected Results
JIRA corrects the NUL character unsupported by Postgres and creates the issue successfully
Actual Results
JIRA fails to create the issue and the below exception is thrown in the atlassian-jira.log file:
2021-10-20 14:15:28,664+0000 Caesium-1-4 ERROR server@smtp.domain.com [c.a.j.bc.issue.DefaultIssueService] Error creating issue: com.atlassian.jira.exception.CreateException: org.ofbiz.core.entity.GenericEntityException: while inserting: [GenericEntity:Issue][summary,Good news][watches,0][creator,JIRAUSER10000][created,2021-10-20 14:15:28.655][timespent,null][timeoriginalestimate,null][project,10001][description,| ... (ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0x00))
Workaround
Currently there is no known workaround for this behavior. A workaround will be added here when available
