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

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Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:43:16 -0500
From: Pete Licoln <pete.licoln@...il.com>
To: Jubei Trippataka <vpn.1.fanatic@...il.com>, 
	full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Apple Safari 4 Beta feeds: URI NULL Pointer
	Dereference Denial of, Service Vulnerability

Well you said it: "DoS Vulnerability"
And stills a vulnerability, useless yes, but a vulnerability.

Regards

2009/2/25, Jubei Trippataka <vpn.1.fanatic@...il.com>:
> 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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