Memory-exhaustion denial of service via unbounded symbol interning during BSON/JSON deserialization

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    • Type: Task
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • Priority: Major - P3
    • 3.13.0
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    • 0.2
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    • Dotnet Drivers
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      When we serialize/deserialize symbols, we use a static dictionary (`__symbolTable` in `BsonSymbolTable`), that never gets cleared or garbage collected and this could lead to fill up the memory.
      This is happening on both 3.x and 2.x

            Assignee:
            Ferdinando Papale
            Reporter:
            Ferdinando Papale
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