Re: What is a security bug?
Marc Haber <mh+debian-security@zugschlus.de> writes:
> 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?
It seems it does not save form entries (which was not mentioned
explicitly in Florian's post above), but it certainly does save the
tabs and multiple windows information and such.
Thomas
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