Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

And it needs to be said that you generally cannot tell if a vulnerability is critical for a given application except by evaluating the vulnerability in the context of said application. One that I've seen is some critical DoS vulnerability due to a poorly crafted regex. That sort of vulnerability is only relevant if you are passing untrusted input to that regex.


Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: