diff --git a/graphify/extract.py b/graphify/extract.py
index 7b392d6c5..a56a7809c 100644
--- a/graphify/extract.py
+++ b/graphify/extract.py
@@ -5248,8 +5248,11 @@ def _cpp_preprocess(path: Path) -> bytes:
     if not shutil.which("cpp"):
         return path.read_bytes()
     try:
+        # Pass an absolute path so a corpus file named like "-I/etc/x.F90" cannot
+        # be parsed by cpp as an option (cpp does not accept a "--" end-of-options
+        # terminator). An absolute path always begins with "/".
         result = subprocess.run(
-            ["cpp", "-w", "-P", "-nostdinc", "-I", "/dev/null", str(path)],
+            ["cpp", "-w", "-P", "-nostdinc", "-I", "/dev/null", str(path.resolve())],
             capture_output=True,
             timeout=30,
         )
diff --git a/graphify/llm.py b/graphify/llm.py
index 1619ad806..f9a0cd48e 100644
--- a/graphify/llm.py
+++ b/graphify/llm.py
@@ -1251,11 +1251,13 @@ def estimate_cost(backend: str, input_tokens: int, output_tokens: int) -> float:
 
 
 def _validate_ollama_base_url(url: str) -> None:
-    """Warn (do not raise) if OLLAMA_BASE_URL looks unsafe.
+    """Warn if OLLAMA_BASE_URL looks unsafe; hard-block link-local/metadata (F3).
 
     Sending an entire corpus to a non-loopback http:// endpoint silently leaks
-    proprietary code; we surface a visible stderr warning instead of failing
-    closed (some users genuinely run Ollama on a LAN host they trust).
+    proprietary code, but some users genuinely run Ollama on a LAN host they
+    trust, so a general non-loopback target only warns. A link-local or cloud
+    metadata address (169.254.x, metadata.google.*) is never a legitimate Ollama
+    host and is a classic SSRF target, so we fail closed with a ValueError there.
     """
     try:
         from urllib.parse import urlparse
@@ -1274,6 +1276,14 @@ def _validate_ollama_base_url(url: str) -> None:
         )
         return
     host = (parsed.hostname or "").lower()
+    if (
+        host.startswith("169.254.")  # link-local, includes the 169.254.169.254 metadata IP
+        or host in ("metadata.google.internal", "metadata.google.com", "0.0.0.0", "::", "[::]")  # nosec B104 - blocklist, not a bind
+    ):
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"OLLAMA_BASE_URL points at a link-local/metadata address ({host!r}); refusing to "
+            "send the corpus there. Set it to a real Ollama host."
+        )
     is_loopback = host in ("localhost", "127.0.0.1", "::1") or host.startswith("127.")
     if not is_loopback:
         scheme_note = " (UNENCRYPTED)" if parsed.scheme == "http" else ""
diff --git a/tests/test_cpp_preprocess.py b/tests/test_cpp_preprocess.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..75ca8de5f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_cpp_preprocess.py
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+"""The Fortran C-preprocessor path is hardened against argument injection (F5).
+
+A corpus file is attacker-named; cpp does not accept a "--" end-of-options
+terminator, so _cpp_preprocess passes an absolute path which can never be parsed
+as a cpp option.
+"""
+from graphify import extract
+
+
+def test_cpp_preprocess_passes_absolute_path(tmp_path, monkeypatch):
+    f = tmp_path / "weird.F90"
+    f.write_text("program x\nend program x\n")
+
+    captured = {}
+
+    def fake_run(argv, **kwargs):
+        captured["argv"] = argv
+
+        class _Result:
+            returncode = 0
+            stdout = b"preprocessed"
+
+        return _Result()
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr("shutil.which", lambda name: "/usr/bin/cpp")
+    monkeypatch.setattr("subprocess.run", fake_run)
+
+    out = extract._cpp_preprocess(f)
+    assert out == b"preprocessed"
+    last_arg = captured["argv"][-1]
+    assert last_arg.startswith("/"), f"path arg must be absolute, got {last_arg!r}"
+    assert not last_arg.startswith("-"), "path arg must never look like an option"
diff --git a/tests/test_ollama.py b/tests/test_ollama.py
index a7af29a64..4991557b4 100644
--- a/tests/test_ollama.py
+++ b/tests/test_ollama.py
@@ -1,7 +1,29 @@
 """Tests for the Ollama backend additions in graphify/llm.py."""
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-from graphify.llm import detect_backend, BACKENDS
+import pytest
+
+from graphify.llm import detect_backend, BACKENDS, _validate_ollama_base_url
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("url", [
+    "http://169.254.169.254/v1",
+    "http://169.254.1.5:11434/v1",
+    "http://metadata.google.internal/v1",
+    "http://0.0.0.0:11434/v1",
+])
+def test_ollama_blocks_link_local_and_metadata(url):
+    """Link-local / cloud-metadata Ollama targets fail closed (F3)."""
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+        _validate_ollama_base_url(url)
+
+
+def test_ollama_loopback_and_lan_do_not_raise(capsys):
+    """Loopback is silent; a general LAN host warns but is allowed (F3)."""
+    _validate_ollama_base_url("http://localhost:11434/v1")
+    assert capsys.readouterr().err == ""
+    _validate_ollama_base_url("http://192.168.1.50:11434/v1")  # LAN: warn, not raise
+    assert "non-loopback" in capsys.readouterr().err
 
 
 def test_ollama_in_backends():