CVE-2025-32439: Unhandled Child Process Spawn
A child process is spawned but its handle is discarded without being awaited. When using `std::process::Command::spawn`, failing to call `wait()` on the returned `Child` causes the terminated child to become a zombie process until the parent exits. Repeatedly spawning processes this way can exhaust the operating system's process table, resulting in a Denial
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A child process is spawned but its handle is discarded without being awaited. When using `std::process::Command::spawn`, failing to call `wait()` on the returned `Child` causes the terminated child to become a zombie process until the parent exits. Repeatedly spawning processes this way can exhaust the operating system's process table, resulting in a Denial
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