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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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viraptor ◴[] No.44385347[source]
Unfortunately this is timely news: https://news.sky.com/story/patient-death-linked-to-cyber-att...

> Denial of service is not resulting in ...

Turns out they result in deaths. (This was DoS through ransomware)

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1. yencabulator ◴[] No.44391451[source]
We're talking about a library the GNOME project wrote to read their config files. If you put that in a pacemaker, it's not GNOME's fault.