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arp242 ◴[] No.44382233[source]
A lot of these "security bugs" are not really "security bugs" in the first place. Denial of service is not resulting in people's bank accounts being emptied or nude selfies being spread all over the internet.

Things like "panics on certain content" like [1] or [2] are "security bugs" now. By that standard anything that fixes a potential panic is a "security bug". I've probably fixed hundreds if not thousands of "security bugs" in my career by that standard.

Barely qualifies as a "security bug" yet it's rated as "6.2 Moderate" and "7.5 HIGH". To say nothing of gazillion "high severity" "regular expression DoS" nonsense and whatnot.

And the worst part is all of this makes it so much harder to find actual high-severity issues. It's not harmless spam.

[1]: https://github.com/gomarkdown/markdown/security/advisories/G...

[2]: https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2024-0373.html

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1. nottorp ◴[] No.44384421[source]
"Security" announcements seem to be of 3 kinds lately:

1. Serious. "This is a problem and it needs fixing yesterday."

2. Marketing. "We discovered that if earth had two moons and they aligned right and you had local root already you could blah blah. By the way we are selling this product that will generate a positive feedback loop for your paranoid tendencies, buy buy buy!".

3. Reputation chasing. Same as above, except they don't sell you a product, they want to establish themselves as an expert in aligning moons.

Much easier to do 2 or 3 via "AI" by the way.