New Crash exploit

There seems to be a new crash exploit effecting quite a number of servers

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Requested array size exceeds VM limit
at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.NBTTagIntArray.load(SourceFile:27)
at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.NBTTagCompound.a(SourceFile:329)
at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.NBTTagCompound.load(SourceFile:37)
at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.NBTCompressedStreamTools.a(SourceFile:107)
at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.NBTCompressedStreamTools.a(SourceFile:78)
at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.NBTCompressedStreamTools.a(SourceFile:32)
at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.PacketDataSerializer.b(PacketDataSerializer.java:77)
at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.PacketDataSerializer.c(PacketDataSerializer.java:107)
at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.PlayerConnection.a(PlayerConnection.java:1691)
at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.PacketPlayInCustomPayload.a(PacketPlayInCustomPayload.java:31)
at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.PacketPlayInCustomPayload.handle(PacketPlayInCustomPayload.java:43)
at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.NetworkManager.a(NetworkManager.java:147)
at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.ServerConnection.c(SourceFile:134)
at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.MinecraftServer.u(MinecraftServer.java:659)
at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.DedicatedServer.u(DedicatedServer.java:273)
at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.MinecraftServer.t(MinecraftServer.java:542)
at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:446)
at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:617)

I'm getting that, any idea on the cause

 

9gigsofram looks almost like a ddos attack. just by looking at what it says which included playerconnection and packets looks like it has something to do with the servers connection and too many packets being sent at one time which is exceeding the vm limit and causing the crash.

 

9gigsofram Can we see some of the console messages before and after that snippet of error?

 

http://pastie.org/pastes/8649418/text


After the crash people cannot login but things like chat work for a short period.

 

I'm experiencing the exact same problem.

http://pastebin.com/BJCemzaQ

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

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