Issues

• A level 0 message reached through use or indirect gets a space where libmagic emits a separator

  bug
  trailofbits/polyfile#3603 · Filter by author ESultanik opened on Sep 18, 2026 · v1.0.0
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• A w or W string match reports an extent that runs past the end of the file

  bug
  trailofbits/polyfile#3600 · Filter by author ESultanik opened on Sep 18, 2026 · v1.0.0
  

• The patched gentoo definition cannot be loaded by libmagic, so magic_defs is no longer a valid magic source

  bug
  trailofbits/polyfile#3586 · Filter by author ESultanik opened on Sep 12, 2026

• Analyzer.sbud() returns a truncated tree unless the caller materializes the matches first

  bug
  trailofbits/polyfile#3584 · Filter by author ESultanik opened on Sep 12, 2026 · v1.0.0

• Settle and document the public Python API before 1.0

  documentation
  trailofbits/polyfile#3577 · Filter by author ESultanik opened on Sep 12, 2026 · v1.0.0

• Catalogue: libmagic flag and parser divergences with no shipped-definition exposure

  bug
  trailofbits/polyfile#3576 · Filter by author ESultanik opened on Sep 12, 2026 · v1.0.0

• CSV verdicts name the dialect instead of the encoding, and only ASCII and UTF-8 CSV is recognized

  bug
  trailofbits/polyfile#3554 · Filter by author ESultanik opened on Sep 11, 2026

• Text tests run against the file's bytes for every non-UCS encoding, where libmagic uses its decoded buffer

  bug
  trailofbits/polyfile#3551 · Filter by author ESultanik opened on Sep 11, 2026
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• Regex tests run on a backtracking engine, so a safe libmagic definition can hang PolyFile

  enhancement
  trailofbits/polyfile#3547 · Filter by author ESultanik opened on Sep 11, 2026 · v1.0.0

• No equivalent of libmagic's readcdf, so an HWP 5.0 document keeps the OLE 2 prefix

  claude-code-assistedenhancement
  trailofbits/polyfile#3535 · Filter by author ESultanik opened on Sep 11, 2026

• Cut the v0.6.0 release

  trailofbits/polyfile#3533 · Filter by author ESultanik opened on Sep 11, 2026 · v0.6.0
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• Implement all-offsets scanning for embedded file detection

  enhancement
  trailofbits/polyfile#3532 · Filter by author ESultanik opened on Sep 11, 2026 · v1.0.0

• Feature request: improved search w/ stream support

  enhancement
  trailofbits/polyfile#3363 · Filter by author wwoods opened on Dec 2, 2021

• Low, low priority: Consider alternate handling for encrypted Zip streams

  enhancement
  trailofbits/polyfile#11 · Filter by author tballison opened on Nov 6, 2019