SECURITY.md: Further clarify security adv. policy
Security advisories should only be filed against official releases.
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Note that security advisories are reserved for security researchers who fully
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understand the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), Common Weakness
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Enumeration (CWE), and Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Program and
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who are prepared to demonstrate a known or probable exploit for an issue.
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For example, if a buffer overrun, an uninitialized read, or undefined
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behavior can be triggered by malformed data passed to a public libjpeg-turbo
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API function from an otherwise well-behaved calling program, then it merits
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investigation as a potential security issue. If, however, the calling
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program itself is malformed and could not work properly with any image, then
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its inevitable failure is not a security issue. Such failures can be
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reported using a
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who are prepared to demonstrate a known or probable exploit for an issue that
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exists in an official release of libjpeg-turbo. For example, if a buffer
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overrun, an uninitialized read, or undefined behavior can be triggered by
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malformed data passed to a public libjpeg-turbo API function from an
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otherwise well-behaved calling program, then it merits investigation as a
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potential security issue. If, however, the calling program itself is
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malformed and could not work properly with any image, then its inevitable
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failure is not a security issue. Such failures can be reported using a
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[GitHub bug report](https://github.com/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo/issues/new/choose),
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and they will be investigated as potential opportunities for user proofing.
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- [Alpha/Evolving, Beta, and Post-Beta release series](https://libjpeg-turbo.org/DeveloperInfo/Versioning)
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- [Beta and Post-Beta release series](https://libjpeg-turbo.org/DeveloperInfo/Versioning)
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are not expected to be free of bugs, so vulnerabilities that affect only
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those release series (for example, vulnerabilities introduced by a new
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feature that is not present in a Stable release series) can optionally be
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reported using a
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[GitHub bug report](https://github.com/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo/issues/new/choose).
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Vulnerabilities that affect only
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[Alpha/Evolving release series](https://libjpeg-turbo.org/DeveloperInfo/Versioning)
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should always be reported using a
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[GitHub bug report](https://github.com/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo/issues/new/choose).
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