Security context
What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.
hannobraun/inotify
main @ 3de023d
1
Fixes
0
CVEs
LOW
Peak severity
Highlights
Information Disclosure: 1 prior fix. Scrutinize any change in this area.
src/wrapper.rs: most-fixed (1 issue). Treat as high-risk during review.
0 high-severity fixes in this history; regressions here are high-impact.
Recurring patterns
The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.
Information Disclosure: Inadvertent leakage of the inotify file descriptor to child processes during fork/exec operations can allow unauthorized child processes to read notifications or exhaust available system file descriptors. This was addressed by ensuring the close-on-exec flag is always set.