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I did an experiment and fix with fable5.

Below the result and the root cause of this crash:

1. Ruled out the printf-family theories (test program with _set_invalid_parameter_handler, built /MT like the official binary):

  • %s with NULL in _snprintf_s does not fail-fast in the modern UCRT — it prints (null) and returns normally. Same for %ls NULL and for plain snprintf with an unknown specifier.
  • Only an unknown conversion specifier in a *_s function fail-fasts through the printf engine — and every _snprintf_s format string in the winevtlog path is a compile-time constant, so that mode has no trigger.

2. _strftime_l with an out-of-range struct tm fail-fasts through: _strftime_l_Strftime_l_Wcsftime_lexpand_time_invalid_parameter_noinfo_invalid_parameter → fastfail. Reproduced directly, including with a tm filled from a SYSTEMTIME whose fields are garbage (e.g., 0xCCCC).

3. Resolved the address-space confusion with a real PDB. Mapping our locally built fluent-bit.exe (same link structure, sprintf_s export at 0x1dec20 vs. 0x1e2400 official, mk_main 0x9659a0 vs. 0x975570 — layouts nearly aligned):

Dump frame WinDbg label (export-relative) What's actually there (per local PDB layout)
00–03 mk_main+0x7b0xx __fastfail(5) / _invoke_watson / _invalid_parameter / _invalid_parameter_noinfo — proven by the disassembly in the log (mov ecx,5; int 29h)
04–05 mk_main+0x7fc02, +0x6c90c UCRT strftime internals — locally _strftime_l/_Strftime_l/_Wcsftime_l/expand_time all live in exactly this region (0x9c0xxx–0x9e5xxx, next to the _invalid_parameter cluster)
06–09 vsnprintf_s_l+0x1243/0x147c/0x318e, sprintf_s+0xe74 in_winevtlog plugin code. The plugin's statics sit immediately after those two CRT exports: locally pack_event_value=0x1e4e30, filetime_to_string≈0x1e48d0, winevtlog_pack_text_event≈0x1e66b0, i.e., precisely the 0x1e3xxx–0x1e6xxx band the dump frames fall into
0a–0e wasm_*, mk_main+... fluent-bit core / worker bootstrap (locally, wasm_module_delete even resolves to an unrelated aliased function — these export names carry no real information)

So the stack was never "sprintf machinery called from wasm code" — it's the winevtlog pack chain (frames 06–09) calling into strftime internals (04–05) which raise the invalid-parameter fail-fast (00–03). The vsnprintf_s_l/sprintf_s attribution was an artifact of the plugin code being linked right after those exports.

That means the fix in pack_systemtime (check SystemTimeToTzSpecificLocalTimeEx, validate all SYSTEMTIME fields before _strftime_l) targets the exact crash path in the dump.

Closes #12309.


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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved timestamp handling for Windows event logs.
    • Invalid, incomplete, or unsupported system times are now rejected safely.
    • Timezone conversion failures are detected and reported more clearly.
    • Enhanced validation prevents malformed timestamps from being processed.
    • Timestamp year limits are enforced to improve reliability.
    • Added clearer diagnostic details for timestamp conversion and formatting errors.

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The Windows event log timestamp packers now validate timezone retrieval, system time input, conversion results, and converted fields before formatting. The file time formatter now casts the formatted length to int.

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Timestamp conversion and formatting validation
plugins/in_winevtlog/pack.c
pack_systemtime handles invalid timezone retrieval, rejects invalid input, validates converted fields, limits the year to 9999, logs failures, and preserves locale cleanup. pack_filetime casts the formatted length to int before testing for failure.

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Resolve the control-block brace-style conflict.

The supplied coding guideline requires control-block opening braces on the next line. These changed blocks use K&R braces. The retrieved project learning requires K&R braces. Resolve the conflicting instructions before applying a file-wide style change.

As per coding guidelines, “Always use braces for if/else/while/do blocks” and “Put function opening braces on the next line.”
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In `@plugins/in_winevtlog/pack.c`:
- Around line 313-319: In the timezone conversion flow, capture and validate the
return value of GetDynamicTimeZoneInformation before calling
SystemTimeToTzSpecificLocalTimeEx. If it returns TIME_ZONE_ID_INVALID, log
GetLastError() through flb_plg_debug and return -1; otherwise preserve the
existing local-time conversion handling.

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- Around line 307-309: Resolve the brace-style inconsistency in the affected
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