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Re: What is a security bug?



On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:53:46PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
> > Suppose that the web browser always crashes when confronted with
> > certain input, losing all of its state.  With tabbed browsing,
> > multiple browser opened by the same process etc., this means that
> > potentially important work is lost.
> 
> In the case of galeon, for example, there is no bug, because it can
> restart with the old state.

And galeon saves current state, including form entries done by the
user, before it segfaults?

Greetings
Marc

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