Security context

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

makerdao/dss
master @ fa4f663
3
Fixes
0
CVEs
HIGH
Peak severity
Highlights
Integer Overflow: 2 prior fixes. Scrutinize any change in this area.
src/end.sol: most-fixed (1 issue). Treat as high-risk during review.
2 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.

Integer Overflow: Unsigned-to-signed conversion and accounting logic in core debt-balancing functions like heal and suck can lead to integer overflow/underflow vectors if signed and unsigned logic are conflated.
Integer Overflow: Explicitly casting large unsigned values (uint) to signed integers (int) without safety boundaries allows attackers to overflow the type capacity, corrupting internal balances during asset movements.
Auth Bypass: Lack of global settlement state-validation checks could allow unauthorized modifications to governance parameters or wards after the system has initiated its emergency shutdown sequence (cage).