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X-Source-Cap: ZWx5bnJvYmk7ZWx5bnJvYmk7Ym94NTM3OS5ibHVlaG9zdC5jb20= X-Local-Domain: yes X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4xfBJEc1Qpy2ZQPaJXy6f/nDCUQ8Bnqp+bQZvaNEq7lyH9omJW/yhPV+IJ6MQR1YMV9+H4vTUFG2cBljkKBQ7ugkHSy4Yl+eQtmmgjM7CbO//frk50I6gM oKQCsrLhNCaTlBXGTNoWEFC7s7BVuhHXd2V35duiNVuEwudszIP4w50qTlGWWmdvawLiHSl4vSex3my7fTTIiS7yO07U5En+1Lk= X-BeenThere: gdb-patches@sourceware.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.30 Precedence: list List-Id: Gdb-patches mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: gdb-patches-bounces~public-inbox=simark.ca@sourceware.org >>>>> Siddhesh Poyarekar writes: > On 10/12/26 9:49 AM, Andrew Burgess wrote: >> 3. The real change: clearly state that bugs in the DWARF/BFD parser >> can be security bugs, but they are unlikely to be considered high >> priority, and users should instead use sandboxing to provide >> protection. The text about bugs from well-formed programs is >> retained. > I don't have a strong opinion on the meat of the change, but I want to > point out that this is not sufficient deterrence for people flooding > the project with such reports to get CVE creds in their name. What > priority a CVE gets downstream is typically a result of perception and > the relatively dumb CVSS scores. Unfortunately all major > distributions are currently lost to that madness and "unlikely to be > considered high priority" may not actually pan out that way in > practice. I agree but we can only control gdb, not what other projects do. That is, I think that CVEs are gamed dishonestly nowadays, but it's not clear to me what other options we have for dealing with this. Tom