[SECURITY.md] add pointers to "what is a security issue" (#177372)

Over the years, the security group has received a decent number of
reports of malicious input causing e.g., Clang to crash.

While these reports are valuable, it seems useful to clarify that many
of them are considered bugs, rather than security issues.
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George Burgess IV
2026-01-22 17:19:09 -07:00
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To report security issues in LLVM, please follow the steps outlined on the
[LLVM Security Group](https://llvm.org/docs/Security.html#how-to-report-a-security-issue)
page.
## Security Issue Scope
Many of LLVM's tools are explicitly **not** considered to be hardened against
malicious input. Bugs in LLVM tools like buffer overreads or crashes are
valuable to report [as Issues](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues),
but aren't always seen as security vulnerabilities. Please see
[our documentation](https://llvm.org/docs/Security.html#what-is-considered-a-security-issue)
for a more precise definition of a security issue in this repository.