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Rebuild Comet and MaRaCluster with zlib 1.3.2 and expat 2.8.5; remove X!Tandem - #115

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The OpenMS 3.6.0 release-readiness check F6 ("no known-vulnerable bundled library") found old zlib and expat statically linked in engines of this repository (abe0956):

engine platforms bundled from
Comet 2025.01 rev. 1 Linux x86_64 and aarch64, macOS arm64 and x86_64, Windows x86_64 zlib 1.2.11, expat 2.2.9 its MSToolkit
MaRaCluster 1.04.1 Linux x86_64, macOS arm64, Windows x86_64 zlib 1.2.3 ProteoWizard
X!Tandem 15.12.15.2 Linux x86_64 (also macOS x86_64, Windows x86_64) expat 2.0.1 (Linux) its own

Changes

  • recipes/ rebuilds the same engine versions with zlib 1.3.2 and expat 2.8.5, as their upstream release builds do (same runners, compilers and builder scripts), from pinned sources: Comet v2025.01.1 (4181df6) with MSToolkit's zlib and expat swapped, and MaRaCluster rel-1-04-1 (c122929) with the ProteoWizard revision of its release build (9ba7317), built with --zlib-src pointing to zlib 1.3.2 and zlib's configure run first. .github/workflows/rebuild-engines.yml runs the builds and checks on pull requests and pushes to master that change recipes/. recipes/README.md describes all of it.
  • The binaries of run 36621931217 replace the upstream ones (c5c2923, with their SHA-256). Each Comet and MaRaCluster folder gets a README.md with the provenance, the Comet folders expat's license, and VERSION says that these are rebuilds.
  • X!Tandem is removed: no OpenMS tool runs it since XTandemAdapter was removed in 3.4.0 (see [BUILD] Stop shipping X!Tandem in the installers OpenMS#10344 and #10347).

Verification (in the workflow, per platform)

  • check-bundled-libs.sh: the binaries carry only zlib 1.3.2 and, for Comet, expat 2.8.5 (on Windows, where MSVC drops the version strings, through the static libraries that are linked). The upstream binaries fail the same check.
  • compare/: on OpenMS's test data, with uncompressed, zlib-compressed and gzipped spectra, the results are identical to those of the binaries they replace: Comet's txt, pepXML, mzIdentML, pin and SQT output of four searches (68 comparisons), and MaRaCluster's clusters and consensus spectra, run as MaRaClusterAdapter runs it.
  • Locally: file types, static/dynamic linking, glibc symbol versions (MaRaCluster up to 2.34), macOS minimum versions (Comet 14.0/13.0, MaRaCluster 11.0), dylibs and Windows DLL imports are those of the old binaries.

Notes

  • MaRaCluster's batch step, which converts its input files in parallel OpenMP threads, crashes on Windows with an access violation: on a windows-2022 runner in 42 of 100 runs of the 1.04.1 release binary, 35 of 100 of the rebuilt one, and 0 of 100 in one thread (Linux and macOS: none). This is not from the rebuild; MaRaClusterAdapter has run the index step in one thread first since Debian package: drop padded RUNPATH entries, bridge dev files and stale Depends; MaRaCluster 1.04.1 OpenMS#10259, and the comparison does the same.
  • MaRaCluster also links ProteoWizard's HDF5 1.8.7; that is not replaced here.
  • After this is merged, OpenMS's THIRDPARTY submodule has to point to the merge commit.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Updates
    • Rebuilt Comet and MaRaCluster binaries for supported platforms with updated zlib and expat libraries.
    • Removed the X! Tandem version and license entries.
  • Documentation
    • Added details on supported binaries, bundled libraries, build comparisons, and update procedures.
  • Validation
    • Added checks for bundled library versions and comparisons of rebuilt engines against baseline results.

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The upstream binaries of Comet 2025.01 rev. 1 and MaRaCluster 1.04.1 carry
copies of zlib and expat with known vulnerabilities: Comet's MSToolkit
bundles zlib 1.2.11 and expat 2.2.9, and MaRaCluster links ProteoWizard's
zlib 1.2.3. recipes/ rebuilds the same engine versions with zlib 1.3.2 and
expat 2.8.5, and .github/workflows/rebuild-engines.yml runs the builds on
the runners of the upstream release builds:

- versions.env pins the sources: the zlib and expat archives by SHA-256,
  Comet, MaRaCluster and ProteoWizard by commit.
- Comet: the patch points its Makefiles and Visual Studio projects at the
  new zlib and expat, which prepare.sh puts into MSToolkit/src in place of
  the old ones. The builds are those of Comet's release workflows.
- MaRaCluster: the patch makes its builder scripts build the ProteoWizard
  tree that prepare.sh provides, with --zlib-src pointing to zlib 1.3.2, so
  that ProteoWizard, Boost and MaRaCluster use it. ProteoWizard is pinned
  to the commit that the rel-1-04-1 release build used.
- check-bundled-libs.sh checks the zlib and expat versions in the binaries,
  and compare/ requires the same results as from the binaries they replace
  on OpenMS's test data, with uncompressed, zlib-compressed and gzipped
  spectra.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Rw4h2NgPw5vPhVynmADGPx
…ners

- The MSFileReader DLLs, whose type library MSToolkit #imports, need the
  Visual C++ 2010 runtime. The windows-2019 image of Comet's release
  builds had it, windows-2022 has not, so regsvr32 could not load
  XRawfile2_x64.dll. Install it, and register only XRawfile2_x64.dll,
  the one DLL with DllRegisterServer.
- In the Linux containers the checkout belongs to another user, and git
  refused to fetch the baseline binaries into it. Mark it safe.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Rw4h2NgPw5vPhVynmADGPx
The sparse checkout left out all of pwiz_tools/Shared, which the
tarballs have but for a few folders and libraries, and the Windows build
of ProteoWizard stopped after 48 seconds. Leave out exactly what the
tarballs leave out (Jamroot.jam's .pwiz-src-exclusions): this keeps
pwiz_tools/Shared and doc, and drops from libraries/ the archives the
tarballs do not have, such as expat 2.0.1.

Show ProteoWizard's build log when a MaRaCluster build fails; the
builders write it to a file.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Rw4h2NgPw5vPhVynmADGPx
No OpenMS tool runs X!Tandem since XTandemAdapter was removed in OpenMS
3.4.0. #111 meant to remove its binaries, but it was merged after #112
had renamed the 64bit folders to x86_64, so the copies in
Linux/x86_64, MacOS/x86_64 and Windows/x86_64 stayed, and the Windows
installer and the x86_64 DEB kept shipping tandem.exe.

They also carry outdated expat: the Linux binary expat 2.0.1, and the
Windows binary, linked in December 2015, an expat older than 2.2.0
(released in June 2016). Both are affected by Critical CVEs such as
CVE-2016-0718 (fixed in 2.2.0) and CVE-2022-25235 (fixed in 2.4.5). The
macOS binary uses the system's libexpat.

VERSION and Licenses.txt no longer list X!Tandem. OpenMS/OpenMS#10344
keeps it out of the installers for THIRDPARTY revisions that still have
it.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Rw4h2NgPw5vPhVynmADGPx
Git Bash did not find msbuild on the path that setup-msbuild sets up
("msbuild: command not found"). Comet's own release workflow runs it
from the default Windows shell.

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- check-bundled-libs.sh failed the Windows Comet build on three "expat_2"
  strings in MSToolkitLite.lib, next to one "expat_2.8.5": fragments in
  the objects of MSVC's link-time code generation, whose only expat is
  2.8.5. A bundled expat or zlib shows its full version, as the old
  binaries do, so only full versions count now.
- A download of the expat archive failed with HTTP 500 for seven
  seconds on one runner; retry five times, ten seconds apart, on any
  error.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Rw4h2NgPw5vPhVynmADGPx
- The macOS build stopped in ProteoWizard's build of zlib 1.3.2: clang
  rejects gzlib.c, gzread.c and gzwrite.c calling lseek, read, write and
  close undeclared. ProteoWizard compiles zlib's sources without running
  zlib's configure, which leaves zconf.h without <unistd.h>; zlib 1.2.3's
  gzio.c did not need it. GCC only warns. prepare.sh now runs zlib's
  configure on Linux and macOS, as zlib's own build does.
- One run of the rebuilt Windows binary crashed (access violation) in the
  batch step on the uncompressed spectra; an earlier build of the same
  sources passed the same comparison, and 500 runs of each Linux binary
  did not crash. MaRaCluster reads its input files in parallel threads.
  compare/maracluster.sh can now repeat the batch step of the old and new
  binary, and of the new one in one thread, and the workflow does so 100
  times, keeps minidumps of maracluster.exe on Windows, and uploads the
  logs, dumps and binary when the job fails.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Rw4h2NgPw5vPhVynmADGPx
…ests

- The Windows crash of the last run is MaRaCluster's, not the rebuild's.
  On a windows-2022 runner, the batch step alone on the two test files
  crashed with an access violation in 42 of 100 runs of the 1.04.1
  release binary, in 35 of 100 runs of the rebuilt one, and in none of
  100 runs of the rebuilt one with OMP_NUM_THREADS=1. batch converts the
  input files in one OpenMP thread per file; MaRaClusterAdapter has run
  the index step in one thread first since OpenMS/OpenMS#10259, for this
  crash, and batch then reuses the converted files.
  compare/maracluster.sh now runs index (one thread), batch and consensus
  as the adapter does, and repeats index and batch 25 times per binary.
  The crash dumps did not come about (Windows Error Reporting does not
  handle these processes), so that step is gone.
- Build on pull requests and on pushes to master only: a push to a
  branch with a pull request ran the workflow twice.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Rw4h2NgPw5vPhVynmADGPx

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Comment thread recipes/compare/comet.sh
CodeRabbit's pre-merge check counted 5 of the 13 functions as documented
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An output file that only the new binary wrote was never compared; one
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…t 2.8.5

The upstream binaries of Comet 2025.01 rev. 1 and MaRaCluster 1.04.1 carry
copies of zlib and expat with known vulnerabilities: Comet the zlib 1.2.11
and expat 2.2.9 of its MSToolkit, MaRaCluster the zlib 1.2.3 of
ProteoWizard. These are the same versions (Comet v2025.01.1 at 4181df6,
MaRaCluster rel-1-04-1 at c122929, with the ProteoWizard revision of its
release build), built by recipes/ with zlib 1.3.2 and expat 2.8.5 in
run https://github.com/OpenMS/THIRDPARTY/actions/runs/36621931217
(8634ce4, the engines artifact):

- every binary carries only zlib 1.3.2, and Comet only expat 2.8.5
  (check-bundled-libs.sh; on Windows through the static libraries);
- on OpenMS's test data, with uncompressed, zlib-compressed and gzipped
  spectra, the results are those of the binaries they replace: Comet's
  txt, pepXML, mzIdentML, pin and SQT output of four searches, and
  MaRaCluster's clusters and consensus spectra, run as MaRaClusterAdapter
  runs it;
- file types, linking, the glibc symbol versions (MaRaCluster: up to
  2.34), the macOS minimum versions (Comet 14.0 on arm64 and 13.0 on
  x86_64, MaRaCluster 11.0) and the Windows imports are those of the
  binaries they replace.

Each Comet and MaRaCluster folder gets a README.md with the provenance,
the Comet folders expat's license (LICENSE-expat.txt), and VERSION says
that these are rebuilds. The README.md files that the Comet folders had
were stale (Comet's own README, and notes of a build on Ubuntu 20.04).

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68cdd048cdf9f6b809386c13e0014cf7b95bf6d851b5494104bc150ddf619a82  Windows/x86_64/MaRaCluster/maracluster.exe

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@timosachsenberg timosachsenberg changed the title Claude/vulnerable bundled libraries oqtouy Rebuild Comet and MaRaCluster with zlib 1.3.2 and expat 2.8.5; remove X!Tandem Sep 29, 2026
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