self contained **patch** usually applies fine on the hotfix branch during backports as long it is self contained. There are situations however this may lead to conflicts and the patch will not cleanly apply. Conflicts might be trivial which can be resolved easily, when conflicts seem to be non-trivial or touches the part of the code-base the developer is not confident - to get additional clarity reach out to #hack on MinIOHQ slack channel. Hasty changes must be avoided, minor fixes and logs may be...

      - uses: dessant/lock-threads@v3
        with:
          github-token: ${{ github.token }}
          issue-inactive-days: '365'
          exclude-any-issue-labels: 'do-not-close'
          issue-lock-reason: 'resolved'

process of investigating, assessing and resolving a vulnerability report
opened by a MinIO employee or an external third party.

Therefore, it lists pre-conditions and actions that should be performed to
resolve and fix a reported vulnerability.

## Vulnerability Management Process

The vulnerability management process requires that the vulnerability report
contains the following information:

Harshavardhana <******@****.***> 1692197493 -0700

`config.json` and bucket DNS SRV records. `MINIO_DOMAIN` indicates the domain suffix for the bucket which
will be used to resolve bucket through DNS. For example if you have a bucket such as `mybucket`, the
client can use now `mybucket.domain.com` to directly resolve itself to the right cluster. `MINIO_PUBLIC_IPS`
points to the public IP address where each cluster might be accessible, this is unique for each cluster.