What the developer wrote
Authored by Alex Myers
reckless: fix installer search
Some installer procedures have more options for valid entypoint
names than others. We iterate through each of their first choices,
then their second choices, etc..
What changed, and why it matters
This is a small bug fix in a helper tool called 'reckless' that installs plugins for Core Lightning. The tool tries several possible file names to find a plugin's main entry point. Before this fix, if an installer had fewer possible names than the loop expected, the code could crash with an index error. The patch simply skips installers once their list of possible names is exhausted. There is no direct security relevance in the commit itself.
No security action required; treat as a normal bug-fix commit. If auditing, confirm the crash was only a local tool error and not exploitable.
Security signals we found
Bounds-check added to prevent IndexError in installer entrypoint iteration
No mention of security, vulnerabilities, or exploitation in commit message or diff
Evidence from the diff
In tools/reckless, the InferInstall class iterates over INSTALLERS and over tiers 0-9 looking for entrypoint filename formats (inst.entries[tier]). If an installer defines fewer than 10 entries, the loop would raise an IndexError. The patch adds a bounds check: if tier >= len(inst.entries), continue. This is a robustness fix for the plugin installer search logic.
Changed components
tools/recklessInferInstall classInspect captured patch +3 / −0
diff --git a/tools/reckless b/tools/reckless
index 891bedb0..97fa1b2c 100755
--- a/tools/reckless
+++ b/tools/reckless
@@ -821,6 +821,9 @@ class InferInstall():
for tier in range(0, 10):
# Look for each installers preferred entrypoint format first
for inst in INSTALLERS:
+ # All of this installer's entrypoint options exhausted.
+ if tier >= len(inst.entries):
+ continue
fmt = inst.entries[tier]
if '{name}' in fmt:
pre = fmt.split('{name}')[0]
Why this scored 18/100
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