Re: What is a security bug?

[Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>]

Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

> * Thomas Bushnell:
>
>> 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.
>
> I would still consider it a bug, but clearly a less severe one.

I meant not that there is no bug, but it no longer has the same
security implications.