Add note on unexpected exceptions to security policy#1825
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| This is to avoid handling performance improvements as security vulnerabilities. | ||
| Exceptions are an expected part of control flow when processing inputs, | ||
| therefore crashes resulting from unhandled exceptions are not security vulnerabilities. |
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We usually use the term “crash” for segfaults rather than exceptions (see Lib/test/crashers for example). Should this be just:
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| therefore crashes resulting from unhandled exceptions are not security vulnerabilities. | |
| therefore unhandled exceptions are not security vulnerabilities. |
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This is something we've gotten quite a few times, e.g. GHSA-2frx-2h99-jv56 or GHSA-32pj-fh79-3c9p. It's only a security issue if the unexpected exception is attacker-triggerable and causes actual availability harm (not merely an unhandled Python exception).