Kogasa@programming.devtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Some bad code just broke a billion Windows machinesEnglish
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2 months agoSure, throw people in jail who haven’t committed a crime, that’ll fix all kinds of systemic issues
Sure, throw people in jail who haven’t committed a crime, that’ll fix all kinds of systemic issues
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.
It’s a reach, but the Fourier transformation of a Schwarz (rapidly decaying) function is also a Schwarz function. Compact support is a strictly stronger condition than Schwarz (the function must eventually decay to 0) but doesn’t have this nice property with respect to Fourier transforms, i.e. the FT of a compactly supported function is Schwarz but not necessarily compactly supported