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Re: [Full-disclosure] Apple Safari 4 Beta feeds: URI NULL Pointer Dereference Denial of, Service Vulnerability
- To: Jubei Trippataka <vpn.1.fanatic@xxxxxxxxx>, full-disclosure <full-disclosure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Apple Safari 4 Beta feeds: URI NULL Pointer Dereference Denial of, Service Vulnerability
- From: Pete Licoln <pete.licoln@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:43:16 -0500
Well you said it: "DoS Vulnerability"
And stills a vulnerability, useless yes, but a vulnerability.
Regards
2009/2/25, Jubei Trippataka <vpn.1.fanatic@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Why does the industry incessantly call any bug a "DoS Vulnerability". Why
> are these bugs even published to a security mailing list and not privately
> dealt with by the vendor? Just because a bug class can crash an application
> doesn't make it a security issue.
>
> Does this frustrate anyone else?
>
> --
> ciao
>
> JT
>
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