Bug Levels

ANALYZING BUG URGENCY

This is an attempt to summarize thinking on different types of bugs, how serious they are, and what an appropriate course of action to take is when they are discovered. It does not represent official policy of any kind.

CRITICAL EMERGENCY BUGS

All of these bugs require immediate, urgent action, and should be reported to the os/software maintainers asap, probably in private or semi-private channels to allow vulnerable systems to be patched prior to full public disclosure. The most serious bug possible is a bug which exploits the network stack of a machine that is not even running public services and allows arbitrary code to be run as the hostowner. The least serious bug in this category is remotely crashing a service such as ftpd which is not run by most users with publicly accessible machines.

SERIOUS BUGS


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