Security context
What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.
toblerity/rtree
main @ 680d63a
2
Fixes
0
CVEs
HIGH
Peak severity
50.0%
Coverage
Highlights
Denial of Service: 1 prior fix. Scrutinize any change in this area.
rtree/core.py: most-fixed (1 issue). Treat as high-risk during review.
1 high-severity fix in this history; regressions here are high-impact.
Recurring patterns
The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.
Memory Corruption: Inconsistent ctypes declarations between Python and the underlying libspatialindex library can cause prototype mismatches (such as mismatched integer sizes or calling conventions), leading directly to memory corruption, unexpected behavior, or hard process crashes.
Denial of Service: Underlying C-allocated results are vulnerable to memory leaks if Python generators wrapping C-level query results are abandoned or terminated before completion, requiring strict lifecycle management using try-finally guarantees.