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Validate and bound dev batch parsing in Core::set_job#4

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Validate and bound dev batch parsing in Core::set_job#4
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Motivation

  • Prevent malformed or attacker-controlled dev batch suffixes from being converted into unsigned values that underflow array indexes or cause unbounded memory/thread allocation.
  • Address crash/OOB and resource-exhaustion risks when callers send dev values such as cpu*0, cpu*-1, or very large numbers.

Description

  • Replaced atoi()-based parsing of the dev batch suffix with validated strtoul() parsing that rejects empty, non-numeric, zero, and overflowed values in moner-job.cpp.
  • Added an explicit CPU-batch check to reject 0 before indexing cpu_params2variant[new_batch - 1] to avoid underflow.
  • Introduced a new MAX_RX_CPU_WAYS = 32 cap and a check to bound RX batch sizes and avoid unbounded thread/memory allocation.
  • Added an overflow guard that checks new_batch * new_mem_size before performing the allocation to prevent integer-overflow driven huge allocations.

Testing

  • Ran npm test --silent; it failed in this environment because the native addon build cannot be completed (Unable to build node-randomx native addon), so full integration tests could not run.
  • The change is isolated to Core::set_job parsing/validation logic and compiles in this workspace as a single-file change (commit recorded).

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@MoneroOcean MoneroOcean merged commit 1f00ea4 into main May 27, 2026
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