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• pymysql/_compression.py
• pymysql/tests/test_compression.py

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Walkthrough

PyMySQL now supports MySQL protocol compression with zlib and optional zstd. The connection negotiates compression during authentication and uses compressed framing for later traffic. The change adds codec and connection tests, an optional zstd dependency, and installation and changelog documentation.

Changes

MySQL protocol compression

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Connection
  participant MySQLServer
  participant CompressedStream
  Connection->>MySQLServer: Negotiate zlib or zstd capability
  Connection->>MySQLServer: Complete authentication with normal framing
  Connection->>CompressedStream: Create stream after authentication
  Connection->>CompressedStream: Pass subsequent writes for framing
  CompressedStream->>MySQLServer: Send compressed protocol frames
  MySQLServer->>CompressedStream: Return compressed protocol frames
  CompressedStream->>Connection: Provide decoded packet bytes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 2300c

No concrete merge-blocking issue was identified. Compression support appears ready to merge subject to normal checks.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2300c

Compression preserves the inspected authentication and TLS ordering and rejects malformed streams with bounded output. The main remaining concern is connection reuse after an unexpected interruption during compressed decoding. Exposure is limited to connections using compression; no credential bypass or broader privilege gain was established.

Retained concerns

• Low · reliability · inferred: Unexpected interruption during compressed-frame processing can escape without closing the connection. The codec consumes frame bytes before decoding and committing its buffer, but Connection._read_bytes closes only for InternalError. If a caller catches an interruption or unexpected decoding/allocation exception and reuses that connection, framing or response-consumption state may be incomplete. Expected malformed-stream errors and raw transport failures already close correctly; the concern is the newly added processing interval outside those safeguards.

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The new decoding surface is reachable by the selected MySQL peer on connections negotiating compression. A peer controlling that stream can supply frame headers and compressed payloads to the client process. The inspected changes introduce no additional database privilege, tenant identity, or infrastructure authority; process-wide resource consequences were not fully characterized.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — Unexpected interruption after frame consumption creates a possible response-state desynchronization path if the application subsequently reuses the open connection. This is a failure-containment concern, not a demonstrated credential compromise or attacker-controlled privilege escalation.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — TLS wrapping, when selected, precedes authentication traffic. Built-in authentication exchanges use normal framing, and compression activates after their terminal OK packet. Custom handlers retain the historical contract that a None return can indicate a completed exchange.
• observed — Frame payload and declared output lengths are 24-bit fields. Decoding limits returned output to the declared length plus one and rejects incorrect lengths, incomplete streams, trailing data, and recognized decoder errors. These are output controls, not proof of a total native-memory or CPU bound.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Recognized decoding errors, short raw reads, and transport failures close the connection and clear its compression state. This prevents normal malformed-frame rejection from leaving a reusable poisoned stream. Connection-level closure tests cover zlib; standalone malformed-frame tests are parameterized for both available algorithms.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Make interruption or unexpected failure anywhere in a compressed-read transition terminal for that connection, matching the raw reader’s cleanup policy while preserving the original exception.

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