chore: Set permissions for GitHub actions

Restrict the GitHub token permissions only to the required ones; this way, even if the attackers will succeed in compromising your workflow, they won’t be able to do much.

- Included permissions for the action. https://github.com/ossf/scorecard/blob/main/docs/checks.md#token-permissions

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions#permissions

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-jobs/assigning-permissions-to-jobs

[Keeping your GitHub Actions and workflows secure Part 1: Preventing pwn requests](https://securitylab.github.com/research/github-actions-preventing-pwn-requests/)

Signed-off-by: naveen <172697+naveensrinivasan@users.noreply.github.com>

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -5,9 +5,14 @@ on:
     tags:
       - "v*.*.*"
 
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
 jobs:
 
   release:
+    permissions:
+      contents: write  # for softprops/action-gh-release to create GitHub release
     name: Build release binaries
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     strategy:
@@ -35,6 +40,8 @@ jobs:
             build/c/shell.c
 
   release-windows:
+    permissions:
+      contents: write  # for softprops/action-gh-release to create GitHub release
     name: Build release binaries for windows
     runs-on: windows-latest
     steps:

.github/workflows/test.yml

@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@ name: Test
 
 on: [push, pull_request]
 
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
 jobs:
 
   test-posix: