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someonebaggy • today at 3:46 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Why couldn't a crash caused by filesystem corruption caused by a + operator that says 1+1=3 be filed as a DoS?


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tsimionescu • today at 6:42 AM

It could. But it's a CVE in the system that crashed or in the filesystem, not in the calculator web service that we were discussing. If a filesystem decides to use a bad online calculator for its internal logic, that's a vulnerability on the filesystem, not the calculator.

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