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πŸ›‘οΈ Sentinel: Enforce concurrent connection limit on daemon socket#84

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πŸ” Issue: The daemon's socket listener (startSocketListener) spawned a new goroutine for every incoming connection without limit. A local attacker or runaway process could flood the socket, causing the daemon to exhaust system resources (goroutines, memory) and crash (DoS).

🧠 Risk: High. Local users (or compromised services) could crash the core agent, preventing cron job execution and reporting.

πŸ› οΈ Fix: Implemented a semaphore pattern (buffered channel) to strictly limit the number of concurrent active connections to 50.

  • Added maxConcurrentConnections constant.
  • Added semaphore acquisition before spawning handler goroutines.
  • Ensures backpressure is applied to the OS socket backlog when the limit is reached.

πŸ§ͺ Tests:

  • Added cmd/security_concurrency_test.go with TestConcurrentConnectionLimit.
  • The test sets the limit to 1 and verifies that a second connection is blocked until the first one completes.
  • Verified that all existing tests pass (go test ./...).

This PR was created by an automated nightly security task.


PR created automatically by Jules for task 7877803065727422335 started by @minibota

Fixed unbounded concurrency DoS vulnerability by implementing a semaphore to limit active socket connections.
Added regression test `TestConcurrentConnectionLimit`.
Hardened `cmd/daemon.go` with `maxConcurrentConnections`.
Verified that excessive connections are blocked correctly.
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