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Re: Apple Safari 4 Beta feeds: URI NULL Pointer Dereference Denial of, Service Vulnerability

From: Jubei Trippataka <vpn.1.fanatic () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:09:19 +1100

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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Current thread:

Apple Safari 4 Beta feeds: URI NULL Pointer Dereference Denial of, Service Vulnerability Trancer (Feb 25)
- Re: Apple Safari 4 Beta feeds: URI NULL Pointer Dereference Denial of, Service Vulnerability Jubei Trippataka (Feb 25)
  - Re: Apple Safari 4 Beta feeds: URI NULL Pointer Dereference Denial of, Service Vulnerability Pete Licoln (Feb 25)
    - Re: Apple Safari 4 Beta feeds: URI NULL Pointer Dereference Denial of, Service Vulnerability Thierry Zoller (Feb 26)
    - Re: Apple Safari 4 Beta feeds: URI NULL Pointer Dereference Denial of, Service Vulnerability jf (Feb 26)
    - Re: Apple Safari 4 Beta feeds: URI NULL Pointer Dereference Denial of, Service Vulnerability Trancer (Feb 26)
    - Re: Apple Safari 4 Beta feeds: URI NULL Pointer Dereference Denial of, Service Vulnerability Jubei Trippataka (Feb 26)
    - Re: Apple Safari 4 Beta feeds: URI NULL Pointer Dereference Denial of, Service Vulnerability Jeremy Brown (Feb 26)
    - Re: Apple Safari 4 Beta feeds: URI NULL Pointer Dereference Denial of, Service Vulnerability jf (Feb 26)
    - Re: Apple Safari 4 Beta feeds: URI NULL Pointer Dereference Denial of, Service Vulnerability neeko (Feb 26)
    - Re: Apple Safari 4 Beta feeds: URI NULL Pointer Dereference Denial of, Service Vulnerability Jubei Trippataka (Feb 26)
    - Re: Apple Safari 4 Beta feeds: URI NULL Pointer Dereference Denial of, Service Vulnerability Jason Starks (Feb 26)

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