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VULN-DISCLOSURE-POLICY: NULL dereferences and crashes

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If a malicious server can trigger a NULL dereference in curl or
otherwise cause curl to crash (and nothing worse), chances are big that
we do not consider that a security problem.

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## NULL dereferences and crashes
If a malicious server can trigger a NULL dereference in curl or otherwise
cause curl to crash (and nothing worse), chances are big that we do not
consider that a security problem.
Malicious servers can already cause considerable harm and denial of service
like scenarios without having to trigger such code paths. For example by
stalling, being terribly slow or by delivering enormous amounts of data.
Additionally, applications are expected to handle "normal" crashes without
that being the end of the world.
There need to be more and special circumstances to treat such problems as
security issues.