Limit Type 4 function procedure nesting

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• Bug Fixes
  • Procedure parsing is limited to a maximum nesting depth of 64. Procedures that exceed this limit are rejected, preventing excessive parsing.
  • When parsing a procedure fails, subsequent evaluation attempts reject it without retrying the same failed parse. Providing a new set of operators clears the failure state, allowing the updated procedure to be evaluated.

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Type 4 function parsing now limits nested procedure depth to 64. Parsing failures are recorded, and parsed operators enter the cache only after processing completes. A test evaluates a procedure with 8,001 nested opening and closing braces twice.

Changes

Type 4 procedure parsing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Bound procedure parsing depth src/main/java/org/verapdf/pd/function/PDType4Function.java, src/test/java/org/verapdf/pd/function/PDType4FunctionTest.java	The parser tracks nested procedure depth and throws PostScriptException when it reaches 64. It stores parsed operators in the cache only after processing completes and records parsing failures. The test checks that evaluation returns null for 8,001 nested opening and closing braces on two calls.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: lonelymidoriya

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to e4ee1

Repeated evaluation after excessive nesting remains on the error path. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to e4ee1

The change strengthens protection against excessive procedure nesting without expanding access or privileges. Sequential failure and recovery are supported, but concurrent reuse and application-level failure containment remain unverified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The affected security outcome is availability and correctness within the process evaluating PDF functions, including color conversion and composite functions. The inspected change adds no authority-bearing caller or cross-service dependency; tenant isolation and process-wide failure containment are not established by the available source.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — PDF-controlled nested braces previously reached unbounded recursive extraction. At the reviewed head, sequential evaluation rejects excessive depth and rejects repeated evaluation of the failed extraction. This reduces that recursion-exhaustion path; it does not establish safety for other resource-exhaustion paths.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The existing boundary accepts decoded PDF stream content and maps recognized keywords to operators. The added control checks procedure depth within the evaluator; it does not alter identity, credentials, factory dispatch, or the keyword allowlist.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Fail-closed behavior is established for sequential use, not concurrent sharing. An empty cache is published before parsing, and cache reset and failure status are unsynchronized. Early cache publication and mutable ownership predate this PR. Color-space accessors create fresh functions, while Type 3 functions retain child instances; external sharing remains unknown.
• observed — The evaluator's null result is not converted into successful color output by the inspected consumer: PDSpecialColorSpace dereferences it and can raise a runtime exception. This downstream containment limitation and the null-return contract predate the PR; broader application handling is unavailable.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 7 functions across 2 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: limiting procedure nesting in Type 4 functions.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Review comments at @src/main/java/org/verapdf/pd/function/PDType4Function.java:
- Line 100: Update the `getResult` flow in `PDType4Function` to leave
`modifiedOperators` unset when `recursiveProcedure` fails or exceeds its depth
limit. Assign the cache only after parsing succeeds, while still caching the
successfully parsed empty-input result.

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