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Reconsider criteria to align with GHSA

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Description

In https://github.com/rustsec/advisory-db/issues/1808, it became clear that at least two separate people (one of which was me) got confused by the fact that a GHSA was issued for rustix without a RustSec advisory being published. The maintainer made a (convincing) argument that the issue didn't meet the RustSec criteria. IMO it's unfortunate if the RustSec advisory database is "incomplete" in that issues for which GHSAs were filed are not included.

Opening this issue to discuss what could be done about this.

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Research direction

Start by reading issue #1808 and the linked discussion about the rustix GHSA and RustSec criteria. Identify the specific discrepancy between GHSA coverage and RustSec publication criteria, then document an agreed direction for addressing it; the issue is complete when the criteria or handling process has a clear decision.

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Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
security
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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