Ahmad Saleem (unlinked)
WebCore contributor
Summary
Ahmad Saleem works almost entirely in WebCore, concentrated on CSS animation and interpolation correctness — border-image interpolation timing, `<length-percentage>` calc() interpolation dropping the percentage component, percentage preservation in `text-decoration-thickness`/`text-underline-offset` — alongside painting edge cases like near-zero `background-size` and vertical-rl root background propagation. A secondary thread runs through media element plumbing: redundant `player()` protection in `HTMLVideoElement` accessors, duplicated `isIPAddressDisallowed()` evaluation in `isSafeToLoadURL()`, and an int-subtraction overflow in `trackIndexCompare`. The work is correctness-driven rather than security-driven, but two commits sit closer to memory-safety territory than the rest — the SMIL presentation-attribute animation that is never released when the element detaches mid-animation, and the comparator overflow — and adjacent animation teardown/detach paths are a reasonable sweep target.
Components
Security Fix History
- No security fixes recorded
Hardening Commits
Recent Commits
- 2026-09-15 border-image-source (and other image properties) jump to the target value at progress < 0.5 when the two images cannot b
- 2026-09-06 Interpolating a <length-percentage> from a calc() value to a pure <length> drops the percentage component at progress 1
- 2026-09-06 text-decoration-thickness and text-underline-offset don't preserve percentages when interpolating
- 2026-09-02 GraphicsLayerCA::updateDebugIndicators() forces a full-layer repaint on ordinary property changes
- 2026-08-31 SMIL animation of a presentation attribute is never released when the element is detached mid-animation
- 2026-08-31 Near-zero fixed background-size collapses image tile to nothing
- 2026-08-31 [CSS Writing Modes] Propagated root background painted in wrong position in vertical-rl
- 2026-08-28 HTMLMediaElement::isSafeToLoadURL() computes isIPAddressDisallowed() twice
- 2026-08-28 HTMLVideoElement::player() is called and protected redundantly in several accessors
- 2026-08-27 trackIndexCompare uses int subtraction that can overflow