false lint issue blocking checks

[areebahmeddd]

i ran make validate-all and noticed a failure caused by a gosec g602 warning. the warning looks like a false positive since the loop already performs a bounds check but gosec does not seem to follow the control flow correctly ( ref )

[areebahmeddd]

fyi when updating the golangci-lint version in the ci workflow, it may throw new errors since the latest version added new gosec rules (current latest is 2.11.2)

maybe we update the ci version and address them in the same pr? 🤔