Refactor Type1 font parsing to use Type1Subroutines

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved width detection when processing Type 1 fonts with nested subroutines. Width results are now consistent regardless of subroutine order and when parsing is repeated.

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Walkthrough

Type 1 subroutine widths are now resolved on demand and cached. The parser registers subroutine locations, requests widths during callsubr handling, and includes tests for nested subroutine resolution and reuse across parser instances.

Changes

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: ➖ Normal

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: ⚪ Minimal · up to 5cc97

The refactor moves Type 1 subroutine width resolution to on-demand cached parsing. No merge-blocking issue was identified.

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.

Security review details

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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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the main change: refactoring Type 1 font parsing to use Type1Subroutines for subroutine management.

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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

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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Review comment at
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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,
and verify it still resolves the same width. Keep the existing scenario intact.

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📥 Commits

Reviewing files that changed from the base of the PR and between b0ab310 and 5cc97ec.

📒 Files selected for processing (5)

• src/main/java/org/verapdf/pd/font/type1/BaseCharStringParser.java
• src/main/java/org/verapdf/pd/font/type1/Type1CharStringParser.java
• src/main/java/org/verapdf/pd/font/type1/Type1PrivateParser.java
• src/main/java/org/verapdf/pd/font/type1/Type1Subroutines.java
• src/test/java/org/verapdf/pd/font/type1/Type1CharStringParserTest.java

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