Bug 1420815

Summary: sce engine fails when handling stderr output bigger than 65500 B
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Marek Haicman <mhaicman>
Component: openscapAssignee: Jan Černý <jcerny>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Watson Yuuma Sato <wsato>
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Version: 7.3CC: amahdal, jcerny, mhaicman, mpreisle, openscap-maint, qe-baseos-security, wsato
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Description Marek Haicman 2017-02-09 15:00:49 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1420811 +++

Description of problem:
When stderr of particular rule is bigger than 65500 kB, evaluation freezes. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
openscap-1.2.13-1

How reproducible:
reliably

Steps to Reproduce:
1. download reproducers
2. oscap xccdf eval test_sce_stdout_stderr.xccdf.xml


Actual results:
one rule errors, second never finish

Expected results:
both rules errors

Additional info:
This was observed by preupgrade-assistant

Comment 1 Marek Haicman 2017-02-09 15:02:45 UTC
For reproducer attachments, Bug 1420811

Comment 2 Martin Preisler 2017-02-14 20:04:59 UTC
Upstream fix proposed: https://github.com/OpenSCAP/openscap/pull/680

Comment 5 Watson Yuuma Sato 2017-05-23 14:57:41 UTC
Verified with test_sce_streams_fill.sh.

[0 root@qeos-94 smoke-test]# rpm -qa openscap
openscap-1.2.14-1.el7.x86_64

Making check in sce
make[3]: Entering directory `/root/rpmbuild/BUILD/openscap-1.2.14/tests/sce'
make  check-TESTS
make[4]: Entering directory `/root/rpmbuild/BUILD/openscap-1.2.14/tests/sce'
make[5]: Entering directory `/root/rpmbuild/BUILD/openscap-1.2.14/tests/sce'
PASS: test_sce.sh
PASS: test_passing_vars.sh
PASS: test_check_engine_results.sh
PASS: test_sce_parse_errors.sh
PASS: test_sce_in_ds.sh
PASS: test_sce_in_report.sh
PASS: test_sce_stdout_stderr.sh
PASS: test_sce_streams_fill.sh
============================================================================
Testsuite summary for openscap 1.2.14
============================================================================
# TOTAL: 8
# PASS:  8
# SKIP:  0
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  0
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
============================================================================
make[5]: Leaving directory `/root/rpmbuild/BUILD/openscap-1.2.14/tests/sce'
make[4]: Leaving directory `/root/rpmbuild/BUILD/openscap-1.2.14/tests/sce'
make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/rpmbuild/BUILD/openscap-1.2.14/tests/sce'

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-01 08:45:48 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2017:2291