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[–] kogasa@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Frivolous CVEs aren't a good thing for security. This bug was a possible DOS (not e.g. a privilege escalation) in a disabled-by-default experimental feature. It wasn't a security issue and should have been fixed with a patch instead of raising a false alarm and damaging trust.