Receiving 'OutOfMemory: Java heap space' due to JBoss Serialization attempting to allocate a huge StringBuffer

Issue

• Receiving 'OutOfMemory: Java heap space' due to JBoss Serialization attempting to allocate a huge StringBuffer. Sample stack trace:

2013-07-12 17:01:23,898 DEBUG [org.jboss.serial.util.StringUtil] (ContainerBackgroundProcessor[StandardEngine[jboss.web]]) Reading string with utfSize=90363601776499 isLong=true
2013-07-12 17:01:23,898 DEBUG [org.jboss.serial.util.StringUtil] (ContainerBackgroundProcessor[StandardEngine[jboss.web]]) readString::pulling data to Buffer at pos 0 size= 0
2013-07-12 17:01:23,898 DEBUG [org.jboss.serial.util.StringUtil] (ContainerBackgroundProcessor[StandardEngine[jboss.web]]) readString::pulling data to Buffer at pos 1024 size= 1024
2013-07-12 08:33:44,718 WARN  [org.jboss.seam.Component] (ajp-127.0.0.1-8009-73) Exception calling component @Destroy method: org.example.DefaultClass
javax.ejb.EJBException: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.io.IOException
    at org.jboss.ejb3.tx.Ejb3TxPolicy.handleExceptionInOurTx(Ejb3TxPolicy.java:77)
    at org.jboss.aspects.tx.TxPolicy.invokeInOurTx(TxPolicy.java:83)
    at org.jboss.aspects.tx.TxInterceptor$Required.invoke(TxInterceptor.java:190)
    at org.jboss.aop.joinpoint.MethodInvocation.invokeNext(MethodInvocation.java:102)
    at org.jboss.aspects.tx.TxPropagationInterceptor.invoke(TxPropagationInterceptor.java:76)
    at org.jboss.aop.joinpoint.MethodInvocation.invokeNext(MethodInvocation.java:102)
        [...]
Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
    at java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder.<init>(AbstractStringBuilder.java:45)
    at java.lang.StringBuffer.<init>(StringBuffer.java:91)
    at org.jboss.serial.util.StringUtil.readString(StringUtil.java:295)
    at org.jboss.serial.objectmetamodel.DataContainer$DataContainerDirectInput.readUTF(DataContainer.java:757)
    at org.jboss.serial.persister.ObjectInputStreamProxy.readUTF(ObjectInputStreamProxy.java:196)
    at org.jboss.serial.objectmetamodel.FieldsContainer.readField(FieldsContainer.java:147)
    at org.jboss.serial.objectmetamodel.FieldsContainer.readMyself(FieldsContainer.java:218)
    at org.jboss.serial.persister.ObjectInputStreamProxy.readFields(ObjectInputStreamProxy.java:224)
    at java.io.File.readObject(File.java:1937)
    at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor3089.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
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