myxce/.wolf/bugs/bug-1702.md
Rongsong Shen 4c13412720
chore: sync harness batch and bug-1872/1874-1877 to Gitea (#298-#315)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 04:42:34 +00:00

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---
id: "bug-1702"
status: "fixed"
status_updated: "2026-09-28"
status_note: ""
component: "controller"
severity: "unknown"
timestamp: "2026-08-26T09:32:18Z"
last_seen: "2026-09-19T09:00:00Z"
occurrences: 1
files: ["src/harness/test.c"]
tags: ["controller", "testsuite", "xce_test", "cmd_jobrun", "buffer-overflow", "memory-safety", "cli-ux-audit"]
related: ["bug-1703"]
fix_commits: ["da1a663f"]
legacy: true
gitea_issue: 299
gitea_synced_status: "fixed"
gitea_synced_hash: "d7784ec4cb29"
---
# bug-1702: cmd_jobrun's `-m <host>:<ntasks>` parsing copies the host-name substring into a fixed 256-byte…
## Description
cmd_jobrun's `-m <host>:<ntasks>` parsing copies the host-name substring into a fixed 256-byte stack buffer with an unbounded strncpy (length = bytes before ':' in the user-supplied argument, never clamped to sizeof(buf)). A -m argument with a hostname longer than 256 bytes before the ':' overflows the stack buffer.
## Environment
_Not recorded (migrated from buglog.json)._
## Reproduction
_Not recorded (migrated from buglog.json)._
## Root cause
`strncpy(buf, optarg, (int)(p - optarg))` uses the attacker/user-controlled substring length directly with no `MIN(..., sizeof(buf)-1)` clamp, unlike sibling code elsewhere in the file that does bound similar copies.
## Fix
jobrun's -m now goes through cmdutil_split_host_tasks() (src/harness/cmdutil.c), which refuses a host segment that does not fit the 256-byte buffer (-ENAMETOOLONG → "host name in -m ... is longer than 255 characters") and an ntasks that is not an integer >= 1.
## Verification
- Test: test_jobrun_overlong_host_rejected_without_overflow in src/harness/testsuite/test_test_cli.c: RED before the fix (ASAN stack-buffer-overflow, WRITE of size 300, xce_test died), GREEN after; plus the split_host_tasks cases in src/harness/testsuite/test_cmdutil.c (a canary after the host buffer stays intact)
- Suites: harness 6/6 (asan): harness_unit_test 141/0, cmdutil 14/0, resval_typeresolve 7/0, joblist_display 22/0, join_worker_args 7/0, listrow_json 12/0
- Live: n/a; xce_test is a client tool and every case above runs without a controller
## References
- Related: bug-1703