Antivirus/crates/houndd/Cargo.toml
Hound 42cd97d59f supply: read lockfiles, and only ever call a malicious package malicious
Lockfile parsing for npm (all three lockfile versions), yarn, cargo,
poetry, requirements.txt, go.sum, Gemfile.lock and composer.lock, wired
through the indicator index so a sweep checks real dependencies against
real definitions. Signed packs load in the daemon; the sweep gets the
index; `hound supply-chain` cites the OSV record it matched.

A lockfile is the right thing to read: it names every transitive
dependency at an exact version in one small file, and it lists what WILL
be installed rather than what already is — which matters when the
payload runs during installation.

Every parser is hand-written rather than pulling in a TOML and a YAML
crate. Two fields from each format, and a scanner parsing hostile input
should have as little parsing surface as it can.

The important part of this commit is a false positive it fixes.

Building a pack from the whole crates.io OSV export and sweeping a
project produced TWO criticals: rustdecimal, correctly, and **tokio
1.38.0**, which is not malware and never has been. The export is 1,524
GHSA and 1,206 RUSTSEC vulnerability advisories against 19 malicious-
package records, and the parser treated all of them as malware.
GHSA-2grh-hm3w-w7hv describes a tokio race condition fixed in 1.8.1;
Hound reported a version released years later as malicious.

Two independent bugs, either of which alone is fatal:

* Vulnerability advisories were ingested at all. A malicious package
  should not exist; a vulnerable one is a legitimate library with a bug
  and most of its versions are fine. Records must now PROVE they are
  malicious-package reports — a MAL- id, the malicious-packages-origins
  marker, or GHSA's "Malicious code in" wording — and anything
  unrecognised is dropped.

* Unrecognised version ranges fell back to "all versions", which is the
  opposite of safe. That is what turned a range of 1.8.0-to-1.8.1 into
  a verdict on every tokio ever published.

Rebuilt against the same input, the pack now holds 19 indicators rather
than 3,614, rustdecimal is still caught and cites MAL-2022-1 rather than
a GHSA advisory, and tokio and serde are clean. The real tokio advisory
is now a regression fixture, because anything that flags tokio is a
product nobody trusts twice.

Also: definitions loading fails CLOSED on authenticity and OPEN on
everything else. No trusted key means no definitions and a message
saying so, because an operator who believes they are protected and is
not is worse off than one who knows. A pack that fails verification is
skipped and the rest still load. No packs at all is a working daemon —
install scripts, prompt injection, pickles and MCP audits need no feed.

There is deliberately no placeholder signing key compiled in. A fake key
that looks real is how a development shortcut becomes a shipped
vulnerability; an empty trust store is noisy in the way that gets fixed
before release. HOUNDD_DEFS_KEY supplies one for development.

294 tests pass across the workspace.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-21 07:29:47 -05:00

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[package]
name = "houndd"
description = "Hound Antivirus daemon — Unix-socket JSON-RPC over a pluggable engine"
version.workspace = true
edition.workspace = true
license.workspace = true
repository.workspace = true
[[bin]]
name = "houndd"
path = "src/main.rs"
[dependencies]
hound-api = { path = "../hound-api" }
hound-supply.workspace = true
anyhow.workspace = true
serde.workspace = true
serde_json.workspace = true
time.workspace = true
inotify.workspace = true
yara-x.workspace = true
libc.workspace = true
sha2.workspace = true
hound-defs.workspace = true
ed25519-dalek.workspace = true