Security context
What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.
ugorji/go
master @ 580b3cf
2
Fixes
5
CVEs
HIGH
Peak severity
0.0%
Coverage
Highlights
Data Race: 1 prior fix. Scrutinize any change in this area.
codec: 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: A use-after-free condition can occur when the garbage collector reclaims the backing memory of a stringView while unsafe pointers are still referencing it. Ensuring that reference lifetimes are properly managed with runtime.KeepAlive is critical to avoiding arbitrary memory corruption during high-performance codec operations.
Data Race: Concurrent access to unsafe slice properties (length and data pointer) can result in standard data race conditions that lead to inconsistent program state or unexpected memory access errors. Entire struct pointers must be swapped atomically to maintain safety guarantees.