Security context
What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.
briansmith/ring
main @ 7d3dbbb
480
Fixes
50
CVEs
CRITICAL
Peak severity
92.1%
Coverage
Highlights
Denial of Service: 157 prior fixes. Scrutinize any change in this area.
ssl: most-fixed (46 issues). Treat as high-risk during review.
123 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.
Auth Bypass: Inconsistent return-value interpretation or failing to persist validation failures in X509 verification paths has historically allowed complete signature or certificate validation bypasses.
Side-Channel Attack: Non-constant-time logic and branching on secret big-number elements during modular calculations and primality testing frequently expose private keys to timing and cache-leakage analysis.
Denial of Service: Unbounded recursion, integer overflows during length conversion, and memory exhaustion in legacy ASN.1 decoding can lead to crashes or infinite loops when parsing malformed certificates.