Security context

What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.

hermit-os/hermit-rs

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Fixes

CVEs

MEDIUM

Peak severity

Highlights

Denial of Service: 1 prior fix. Scrutinize any change in this area.

hermit-sys/src/net: 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.

Denial of Service: Deadlocks within the network stack's worker thread can hang the entire runtime environment. This occurs when block-waiting on network interface locks (NIC) inside polling routines or system calls, which completely halts network processing.