BBoeOS is a hobby / educational operating system. There are no release branches — only the tip of main is supported. If you find an issue against an older commit, please verify it still reproduces against current main before reporting.

Please report security issues through GitHub's private vulnerability reporting:

1. Go to the repository's Security tab.
2. Click Report a vulnerability.
3. Fill in the advisory form.

This keeps the report private to the maintainer until a fix is ready and a coordinated disclosure can happen.

Please do not open public issues or pull requests for security vulnerabilities.

BBoeOS is a hobby project maintained in spare time. There is no service-level commitment for acknowledgement, triage, or fix timelines — reports will be looked at when the maintainer next has time. If a report sits for a long while without acknowledgement, feel free to bump it. Reporters who would like to be named will be credited in the advisory once a fix lands.

BBoeOS is not production software and ships with no security guarantees. That said, the following classes of issues are in scope and welcomed:

• Kernel memory-safety bugs (out-of-bounds, use-after-free, type confusion) in kernel/arch/x86/ or the C compiler / assembler.
• Ring-3 → ring-0 privilege escalation via syscalls (INT 30h) or the libbboeos.
• Filesystem parser bugs (bbfs / ext2) that can be triggered by a crafted drive image.
• Network stack bugs (NE2000 driver, ARP / IP / ICMP / UDP) triggerable by crafted packets.
• Host-side tooling issues that could compromise a developer's machine (e.g., add_file.py, cc.py, make_os.sh).

Out of scope:

• Denial-of-service via obviously malformed input where no privilege boundary is crossed (e.g., the shell crashing on garbage).
• Issues that only reproduce under modifications to the source tree.