Attack is not just on file format itself. Based on the function signature it's possible for a single decoder to generate infinite bytestream - makes a lot of headache to reader implementation - implementing STRLEN is no longer trivial question.

Either engines should put some limit (e.g. VARCHAR(2000) to enforce length to be limited to 2000, but there are some other engines supporting unlimited BLOBs), or decoder should give a hint what is the maximum length it will yield. Unfortunately current research level project does not have such considerations implemented yet...