Unbounded memory use on large request bodies

The `graphql()` and `graphql_sync()` functions of `juniper_hyper` read the whole body of a POST request into memory before they parsed the body. The functions had no limit on the size of the body. A client could thus send a large body and exhaust the memory of the server. The request needs no authentication. `juniper_hyper` 0.10.1 reads at most 2 MiB of a request body by default. The functions respond with `413 Payload Too Large` to larger bodies. A `juniper_hyper::BodyLimit` in the extensions of a request changes the limit for the request.

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28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 UTC

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29 Oct 2026 14:15:02 UTC

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29 Oct 2026 15:13:59 UTC

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