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> These things shouldn’t end with a bounty for the researcher and a patch by the vendor. It should end with a root cause analysis and a plan to fix that type of
by albntomat0 6y ago
> These things shouldn’t end with a bounty for the researcher and a patch by the vendor. It should end with a root cause analysis and a plan to fix that type of vulnerability across the entire app, or better yet, the whole industry via a research paper.
I'm unsure (and open to discussion) on which classes of bugs make that possible. My initial thought is that finding a stack overflow bug (to randomly choose a bug class) results in "don't goof up memory", which is technically correct, but not actually useful in finding others of that class.
In this hypothetical, maybe the result would some combination of accessing programming language choice, programming practice, and testing tooling? Can't say those are a silver bullet though.