Don't crash at startup when a standalone executable's embedded graph is corrupted

[robobun]

What does this PR do?

Fixes a startup segfault in standalone (bun build --compile) executables whose embedded module-graph payload was corrupted after the build — truncated download, antivirus rewriting, or any post-build tampering. Sentry issue BUN-2V2F: ~6,300 events across bun 1.3.5 → 1.3.14, Windows-dominant, crashing in StandaloneModuleGraph.fromExecutable before any user code runs:

eqlComptimeCheckLenU8Impl        src/string/immutable.zig:927
...
fromExecutable                   src/standalone_graph/StandaloneModuleGraph.zig:1295
start                            src/cli/cli.zig:557

Root cause

The [u64 LE length][payload] blob embedded in the executable is located at startup, and the length field was trusted with zero validation against what the OS actually mapped:

• PE (the Sentry crash): initializePESection (src/jsc/bindings/c-bindings.cpp, still the runtime lookup used by the Rust port via FFI) returned the embedded u64 as-is. A corrupt length makes fromExecutable read the 21-byte trailer at base + 8 + length - 21, landing in unmapped address space → ACCESS_VIOLATION before the existing graceful "invalid trailer" bail-out can run. It also matched the section name by 4-byte prefix (.bundle would match) and read the length field itself without checking VirtualSize >= 8.
• Mach-O: BUN_COMPILED.size trusted the same way.
• ELF: both the stored payload vaddr and the length prefix it points at trusted the same way.

Fix

Validate the untrusted values against the authoritative mapping metadata; on violation return null so the binary falls back to the plain CLI (same path as the existing invalid-trailer handling) instead of crashing:

• PE (c-bindings.cpp): exact 8-byte section-name match, require VirtualSize >= 8, reject when the embedded length exceeds VirtualSize - 8. The compile-time writer sets VirtualSize = 8 + payload_len, so valid binaries pass exactly.
• Mach-O (c-bindings.cpp): clamp BUN_COMPILED.size against the __BUN,__bun section size from the load command (getsectiondata), which the writer keeps up to date.
• ELF (StandaloneModuleGraph.rs): bun_sys::elf::find_loaded_module, the existing dl_iterate_phdr walk behind the crash handler's symbolization, now also reports the end of the PT_LOAD segment it matched. Require the stored vaddr to be inside a PT_LOAD and the whole [vaddr, vaddr + 8 + payload_len) range to fit in that segment. Plain (non-compiled) bun returns early on size == 0 and never pays for the walk.

How did you verify your code works?

New test test/bundler/compile-corrupted-embed.test.ts: compiles a hello-world, locates the embedded length field through the real PE/ELF/Mach-O headers, stomps it with FF FF FF FF FF FF 00 00 (plus a stomped-vaddr variant on ELF), and asserts the corrupted binary falls back to plain CLI behavior (-e works, exit 0) while the uncorrupted binary still runs. The Mach-O variant re-signs ad-hoc after corrupting so the kernel doesn't kill it before startup.

• Before the fix the corrupted executable crashes: panic(main thread): Segmentation fault during startup (reproduced with bun 1.4.0-canary on Linux; same code path as the Windows reports).
• After the fix: bun bd test test/bundler/compile-corrupted-embed.test.ts passes, and bun-build-compile.test.ts, compile-argv.test.ts, bun-build-compile-sourcemap.test.ts all pass (no valid binary is rejected).

Rebase note

The branch was rebased onto main after main independently changed the ELF loader for PIE executables (a load-bias fix that looks the module up by the runtime address of BUN_COMPILED). The resolution merges both behaviors: bun_sys::elf::find_loaded_module(vaddr_ptr) supplies the load bias (main, unchanged) and a new segment_end field (this PR), and the payload is bounded by that segment. Verified after the rebase: cargo check on linux and x86_64-unknown-freebsd, the new corruption test, and the bytecode tests in bun-build-compile.test.ts behave identically with and without this diff.

On arm64 macs codesign cannot re-sign bun-compiled binaries ("main executable failed strict validation"), so the Mach-O test runs the healthy-binary check and skips only the corrupted-run assertion there; darwin x64, Linux, and Windows keep full corrupted-run coverage.

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^{Updated 2:27 AM PT - Aug 27th, 2026}

❌ @robobun, your commit 5512d39 has 2 failures in Build #106706 (All Failures):

• test/js/web/url/url.test.ts - code 1: TypeError: Invalid URL on 🍎 any x64
• test/bundler/transpiler/macro-test.test.ts - leak +1 more on 🐧 13 x64-asan

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This PR validates embedded standalone module graph metadata on ELF, PE, and Mach-O binaries. It rejects invalid payload ranges and tests graceful fallback after platform-specific corruption.

Changes

Standalone Module Graph Hardening

Layer / File(s)	Summary
macOS and Windows section validation src/jsc/bindings/c-bindings.cpp	Mach-O and PE loaders reject missing, undersized, or truncated embedded payload metadata.
ELF segment range validation src/standalone_graph/StandaloneModuleGraph.rs, src/sys/lib.rs	ELF loading resolves the containing module and validates the header and payload against its mapped PT_LOAD segment. elf::LoadedModule stores both segment boundaries.
Test corruption utilities and execution harness test/bundler/compile-corrupted-embed.test.ts	The test infrastructure builds executables, locates embedded metadata in ELF, PE, and Mach-O files, corrupts it, and runs the modified binaries.
Platform-specific fallback tests test/bundler/compile-corrupted-embed.test.ts	Linux, Windows, and macOS tests verify healthy execution and fallback after corrupted embedded metadata. macOS tests also handle re-signing and signing failures.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner, dylan-conway

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In `@test/bundler/compile-corrupted-embed.test.ts`:
- Around line 152-157: The segment/section name checks are too loose (they
compare prefixes), so tighten them to compare the full fixed-width name fields
exactly: when inspecting seg (the load command buffer read by readAt) compare
the entire segment name field (use the full byte range used for segment name,
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await Promise.all([proc.stderr.text(), proc.exited]); and currently calls
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CI status: diff is green; the one red lane is an infrastructure failure, not the code.

Latest build (69225, commit 9484b03) has a single failure: linux x64-asan - build-rust, and it never reached a compile error:

error: could not download file from 'https://static.rust-lang.org/dist/2026-05-06/channel-rust-nightly.toml'
  ... tcp connect error: Operation timed out (os error 110)

That's rustup toolchain install failing to reach static.rust-lang.org on the agent — unrelated to this PR. A retry should clear it.

Verified locally on the current head (9484b03, which rebases onto main and reuses bun_sys::elf::find_loaded_module for the ELF segment bound instead of a private dl_iterate_phdr callback):

• cargo check -p bun_sys and -p bun_standalone_graph clean on linux and x86_64-unknown-freebsd
• compile-corrupted-embed.test.ts passes (ELF length-stomp + vaddr-stomp both fall back gracefully; healthy binary still runs)

Coverage recap across earlier builds: the corruption test passed on linux glibc/musl incl. ASAN, windows x64/baseline/aarch64, and darwin x64 (full Mach-O corrupted-run); on arm64 macs it runs the healthy-binary check and logs a skip of the corrupted-run because codesign refuses to re-sign bun-compiled binaries there ("main executable failed strict validation"; --no-strict gives "internal error in Code Signing subsystem") — worth its own look at MachoSigner, separate from this PR.

Ready for a maintainer: merge, or retry the x64-asan rust build.

[claude]

I didn't find any bugs, but this touches the standalone-graph detection path that runs on every bun startup across three platforms (PE/ELF/Mach-O), with new unsafe FFI (dl_iterate_phdr) and a changed return contract on Darwin — worth a human sanity-check that valid compiled binaries can't be falsely rejected.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR hardens standalone executable startup by validating the embedded module-graph length/vaddr against authoritative OS mapping metadata before dereferencing, across all three binary formats. Changes span c-bindings.cpp (~30 lines: PE exact-name match + VirtualSize bound, Mach-O getsectiondata clamp), StandaloneModuleGraph.rs (~70 lines: new dl_iterate_phdr callback + PT_LOAD containment check), and a 274-line new test that builds a real compiled binary, patches its headers per-platform, and asserts graceful CLI fallback.

Security risks

None introduced — this is strictly defensive hardening of untrusted-after-build bytes that were previously dereferenced without bounds checks. No new attack surface; the failure mode collapses to "behave like plain bun" rather than crash.

Level of scrutiny

High. This code executes on every bun process startup (not just compiled binaries) to decide whether an embedded graph exists. A regression here — e.g., getsectiondata returning an unexpected size on some macOS variant, or the PT_LOAD walk mis-bounding on a PIE/ASLR layout, or the PE VirtualSize being page-rounded differently than the writer's value — would silently turn valid standalone executables into plain-CLI fallbacks, breaking every bun build --compile user. The Darwin path also changes its return contract from always-valid-pointer to nullable; I verified the Rust caller already handles null, but it's a behavioral change worth a maintainer's eye.

Other factors

• The new unsafe Rust block adds a C callback (phdr_callback) with raw pointer casts and an assumption that the first dl_iterate_phdr object is the main executable — true on glibc/musl/FreeBSD today but a platform-knowledge claim a maintainer should confirm.
• CI on commit 82ab9d5 showed the new test failing on macOS 26 aarch64; d4f70ce (the latest commit) tightened the Mach-O name matching in the test, but I can't confirm a green re-run on that lane from the timeline.
• The test's binary-patching helpers (ELF/PE/Mach-O header walking in TypeScript) are intricate enough that reviewing them for correctness requires format-level knowledge.
• Existing compile tests (bun-build-compile.test.ts, etc.) reportedly pass per the PR description, which mitigates the false-rejection concern, but this is self-reported.

[claude]

I didn't find any bugs, but this touches the standalone-executable startup path on all three platforms with new unsafe Rust (dl_iterate_phdr callback) and changes PE section-name matching from prefix to exact — worth a human confirming the validation can't false-reject valid compiled binaries.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR hardens standalone module graph loading by adding bounds validation against authoritative mapping metadata before trusting the embedded [u64 length][payload] blob. It touches three files: c-bindings.cpp (~30 lines added for PE VirtualSize and Mach-O getsectiondata checks), StandaloneModuleGraph.rs (~75 lines added: new dl_iterate_phdr callback, PhdrQuery struct, and PT_LOAD segment-end lookup for ELF), and a new ~280-line regression test that parses PE/ELF/Mach-O headers to corrupt the length field and asserts graceful CLI fallback.

Security risks

None introduced — this is defensive hardening that adds bounds checks where none existed. The change reduces crash surface for corrupted binaries. The new dl_iterate_phdr callback dereferences libc-provided pointers under unsafe, but the SAFETY comments are accurate and the pattern is conventional.

Level of scrutiny

Moderate-to-high. This code runs unconditionally at startup of every bun build --compile executable across Windows, macOS, Linux, and FreeBSD. A false-positive rejection would silently turn a working standalone app into a plain bun CLI. The PE path also tightens section-name matching from 4-byte prefix to exact 8-byte (.bun\0\0\0\0), which is correct per the writer in src/exe_format/pe.rs but is a behavioral change worth a second pair of eyes. The new ELF path adds a dl_iterate_phdr walk on every standalone startup (early-returns on size == 0 for plain bun, so no cost there).

Other factors

The PR includes solid per-platform regression tests with both healthy-binary and corrupted-binary checks. CodeRabbit's two minor nits were addressed. CI shows two unrelated failures (bunx.test.ts Node-version and x64-musl LTO linking) plus a macOS 26 codesign limitation that the test now skips around. The author's CI-status comment is thorough. Given the unsafe FFI additions and the criticality of the startup path, I'm deferring rather than approving.

[robobun]

Rebased onto main (the branch was 385 commits behind, and every red shard on build 60278 was the bunx.test.ts repo-wide breakage that has since been fixed) and simplified the ELF arm.

What changed in this push

The ELF reader no longer carries its own dl_iterate_phdr callback. bun_sys::elf::find_loaded_module already walks the program headers to find the PT_LOAD segment containing an address (it backs the crash handler's symbolization); it now also reports that segment's end, and the standalone-graph reader uses it. The Rust side of this PR is +26/-5 instead of +82/-5, with no new unsafe extern "C" callback. PE and Mach-O are unchanged.

Can the new bound false-reject a valid compiled binary?

Both reviews asked for a human to confirm this, so here is the check written out. On each platform the bound comes from the same writer that produced the payload, and valid binaries satisfy it with equality or slack:

	writer	what it records	reader's bound
PE	add_bun_section	virtual_size = 8 + data_len	length <= VirtualSize - 8, exact equality
Mach-O	write_bun_section	section_64.size = total_size, total_size = 8 + data.len()	length <= section size - 8, exact equality
ELF	write_bun_section	p_filesz = p_memsz = offset_in_segment + align_up(8 + payload_len, page_size)	length <= segment_end - vaddr - 8, page-rounded slack

The PE exact-name match is in the same category: add_bun_section writes name: [b'.', b'b', b'u', b'n', 0, 0, 0, 0], so an 8-byte compare matches every section bun produces, while the old 4-byte prefix compare would also accept a .bundle section.

Verification

• bun bd test test/bundler/compile-corrupted-embed.test.ts passes. With src/ reverted to main it fails, and the crash is the reported one:

  AddressSanitizer: SEGV on unknown address
    #2 core::slice::cmp::equal_same_length   core/src/slice/cmp.rs:157
    #6 StandaloneModuleGraph::from_executable  src/standalone_graph/StandaloneModuleGraph.rs:2035
    #7 bun_runtime::cli::command::start        src/runtime/cli/mod.rs:1210
  

• bun run rust:check-all: 10/10 targets.

• The compile suites (bundler_compile.test.ts + bun-build-compile.test.ts, 73 tests, every --bytecode and ReactSSR variant included): no compiled binary is rejected. 7 fail on my machine, and in every one the binary loaded and ran its embedded graph before the assertion tripped:

  • 5 --bytecode tests whose exact-stderr assertion picks up debug warn: hintSourcePagesDontNeed: MADV_DONTNEED 4096 bytes, a debug-only line from code this PR does not touch
  • compile/HelloWorldWithProcessVersionsBun, which compares process.versions.bun (1.4.0-debug) against Bun.version.replaceAll("-debug", "")
  • compile with relative outfile paths, a 5s default-timeout in a debug+ASAN build

Sentry

Still firing, and no longer only on old releases. BUN-2V2F is at ~11k events, with 33 of the last 24h on 1.3.14. The Rust port carried the unchecked read over unchanged, so it now has a second fingerprint (BUN-3PZY, ~430 events since 2026-06-25) with the identical shape: Windows only, EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION, core::slice::cmp::equal_same_length under from_executable, faulting a short distance past the .bun section.

[robobun]

Re-verified the current head (9484b03) after the rebase and the bun_sys::elf::find_loaded_module refactor:

• cargo check clean for bun_sys and bun_standalone_graph on linux and x86_64-unknown-freebsd
• bun bd test test/bundler/compile-corrupted-embed.test.ts passes (ELF length-stomp and vaddr-stomp both take the graceful fallback; healthy binary unaffected)

The only red lane in build 69225 is linux x64-asan - build-rust, which failed before compiling anything: rustup toolchain install timed out downloading channel-rust-nightly.toml from static.rust-lang.org (tcp connect error: Operation timed out). That's agent infrastructure, unrelated to this diff — a retry should clear it.

[robobun]

This crash is still the top startup crash for Windows compiled executables after the Rust port. Sentry BUN-3PZY: 1194 events since 2026-06-25, all Windows, in StandaloneModuleGraph::from_executable at the 16-byte trailer compare (core::slice::cmp), across the bun 1.4.0 builds 63bb0ca0d, f6d0fcd24, eb835313a, a505a2999, fdb5e06cc and fe06227f0. 46 events share the low 16 bits of the fault address (...5E21) under different ASLR bases, so one published app carries a fixed out-of-range length. 13 events fault at 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF, the non-canonical address case.

Two findings from a reproduction on Windows Server 2019 with bun 1.4.1-canary.1 (f2fe7d3):

• A truncated executable is not the cause on Windows. The loader refuses to start an image whose .bun raw data extends past the end of the file: CreateProcess fails with ERROR_BAD_EXE_FORMAT (uv_spawn reports EFTYPE). I cut a compiled binary at the payload start, 64 KiB into the payload, and 4 KiB before the trailer. None of the three starts. So the Linux truncation work in compile: exit with an error instead of SIGBUS when a standalone executable is truncated #38251 has no Windows counterpart, and the check against VirtualSize in this PR is the whole fix for the PE reader.
• Stomping the 8-byte length header of an otherwise intact binary reproduces the crash exactly: panic(main thread): Segmentation fault at address 0x7FF67A487173, exit code 3, before any user code runs. A garbage value that wraps back into the mapped image (0xFFFFFFFFFFFF0000) does not crash and takes the existing invalid-trailer fallback. This PR extends that fallback to every out-of-range length.

The branch conflicts with main now (StandaloneModuleGraph.rs changed in #40201 and later commits) and needs a rebase before it can land. If the Mach-O and ELF parts need more review, the PE change in c-bindings.cpp can land on its own.

[robobun]

Rebased onto main. The history is now a single clean commit (5a8ce14, comment trims in 5a671a9).

The conflict was real: main independently added a PIE load-bias fix to the ELF loader (look the module up by the runtime address of BUN_COMPILED, add dlpi_addr to the link-time vaddr), while this PR bounds the payload by the mapped segment. The resolution keeps both. bun_sys::elf::find_loaded_module(vaddr_ptr) supplies the load bias exactly as on main, and its new segment_end field bounds the payload. A plain rebase of the old branch tip would have regressed the PIE fix, because the tip looked the module up by the link-time vaddr, which is not a mapped address under PIE.

Verified after the rebase:

• cargo check for bun_sys and bun_standalone_graph on linux and x86_64-unknown-freebsd
• bun bd test test/bundler/compile-corrupted-embed.test.ts passes (length-stomp and vaddr-stomp fall back gracefully, healthy binary unaffected)
• The two --bytecode failures in bun-build-compile.test.ts reproduce identically with this diff reverted, so they are pre-existing on main, not from this change.

Details are in the "Rebase note" section of the PR description.

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[robobun]

Rebased onto main again (34ac7b9). The conflict was small this time: main independently adopted the exact 8-byte PE section-name compare (memcmp(Name, ".bun\0\0\0\0", 8)), so this PR keeps main's form and drops its own equivalent named constant. The Mach-O, PE bounds, and ELF bounds validations remain this PR's and are unchanged.

Verified after the rebase: cargo check for bun_sys and bun_standalone_graph on linux and x86_64-unknown-freebsd, clang-format and rustfmt clean, and bun bd test test/bundler/compile-corrupted-embed.test.ts passes.

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In `@src/standalone_graph/StandaloneModuleGraph.rs`:
- Around line 516-523: Validate the complete PT_LOAD range before reading the
payload: in src/standalone_graph/StandaloneModuleGraph.rs lines 516-523, replace
wrapping address arithmetic with checked addition and reject targets below
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199-204: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert empty stderr in expectGracefulFallback for a stricter "graceful" check.

expectGracefulFallback checks stdout and exitCode but ignores stderr returned by run(). This helper is called for every corruption scenario across ELF, PE, and Mach-O. A regression that prints a warning or diagnostic about the rejected embedded graph to stderr — while still falling back correctly and exiting 0 — would pass this test undetected. The same file already applies a strict expect(stderr).toBe("") check for the healthy-compile helper. Apply the same standard here to keep the fallback path verified as fully silent.

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 async function expectGracefulFallback(exe: string) {
   // With the embedded graph rejected, the binary behaves like a plain `bun`.
-  const { stdout, exitCode } = await run(exe, ["-e", "console.log('fallback-ok')"]);
+  const { stdout, stderr, exitCode } = await run(exe, ["-e", "console.log('fallback-ok')"]);
   expect(stdout).toContain("fallback-ok");
+  expect(stderr).toBe("");
   expect(exitCode).toBe(0);
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[claude]

The segment_start lower-bound gap I raised earlier is now closed — LoadedModule exposes segment_start, the ELF loader gates on target >= module.segment_start, and the test adds a vaddrlow (0x1000) case covering it. I didn't find further issues, but given this is platform-gated unsafe/FFI code across three executable formats, a human pass on the Mach-O and PE paths (which only get exercised in per-platform CI lanes) would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed

• ELF bounds: [target, target + 8 + len) now checked against both segment_start and segment_end; checked-add on vaddr + base_address.
• PE/Mach-O: length clamped to VirtualSize - 8 / getsectiondata size; exact 8-byte .bun name match already present on base.
• find_loaded_module: new fields are the pre-existing seg_start/seg_end locals surfaced on the struct — no behavior change to the lookup itself.
• compileApp pipes stdout without draining — ruled out as already raised on an earlier push.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR hardens standalone-executable startup against post-build corruption of the embedded module-graph payload across all three executable formats. Mach-O and PE validation live in src/jsc/bindings/c-bindings.cpp (clamp the embedded u64 length against the section size the OS actually reports); ELF validation lives in src/standalone_graph/StandaloneModuleGraph.rs and bounds-checks both the stored vaddr and the length prefix against the containing PT_LOAD segment, using two new segment_start/segment_end fields surfaced from the existing dl_iterate_phdr walk in src/sys/lib.rs. A new per-platform test compiles a hello-world, hex-patches copies to corrupt the length (and vaddr on ELF, both high and low), and asserts graceful CLI fallback.

Security risks

The change is defensive — it adds bounds validation to a path that previously trusted a length field read from the executable's own image. The threat model is post-build corruption/tampering of the binary itself, not remote input; failure mode moves from segfault to graceful CLI fallback. No new attack surface is introduced. The unsafe reads that remain are now guarded by explicit segment-range checks, and the SAFETY comments name the invariant and where it is enforced.

Level of scrutiny

High. This is #[cfg]-gated native code across Darwin/Windows/ELF with unsafe pointer arithmetic and C++ FFI, exactly the category .claude/docs/landing-prs.md's Cross-platform section flags for extra care. Each platform's path is only exercised on its own CI lane, and the arm64 macOS test soft-skips the corrupted-run half when codesign refuses to re-sign. A human reviewer confirming CI is green on all three platform lanes — and eyeballing the PE VirtualSize semantics against what the compile-time writer emits — is warranted before merge.

Other factors

Since my previous inline comment, commits ed38870 and 5512d39 added the segment_start field and lower-bound check plus a vaddrlow test variant, addressing the concern I raised. Several other inline threads (github-actions[bot], coderabbitai) were self-resolved by the author; I cannot see their content to independently confirm they were addressed, which is another reason to keep a human in the loop rather than approve outright.