Security context
What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.
rayon-rs/rayon
main @ 9254f19
6
Fixes
0
CVEs
HIGH
Peak severity
100.0%
Coverage
Highlights
Memory Safety: 5 prior fixes. Scrutinize any change in this area.
rayon-core/src/latch.rs: most-fixed (2 issues). Treat as high-risk during review.
6 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.
Memory Safety: Race conditions and compiler optimizations on references inside the Latch implementation (e.g., in set and tickle) can result in Use-After-Free (UAF) vulnerabilities when the underlying stack or thread pool deallocates memory concurrently.
Memory Safety: Buggy, custom, or malicious parallel iterator implementations can violate length and collection state guarantees, leading to out-of-bounds writes or uninitialized memory read/write operations during execution.
Memory Safety: Relying on destructors (Drop) to manage collection lengths during panic unwinding can result in double-free or use-after-free vulnerabilities if the container length is not preemptively reset before raw-slice iterations.