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Security policy: exceptions are not crashes#1849

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@encukou encukou commented Jun 30, 2026

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This is mostly word nitpicking, but: by "crash" we generally mean a segfault or similar; see Lib/test/crashers for example.
Unhandled exceptions are not crashes, and are not a security concern.

However, since segfaults usually can be weaponized, a “crash resulting from unhandled exception” would be a PSRT issue.

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LGTM, however, can we keep it under availability vulnerabilities?

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