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What if the bug is in 3rd party library?

It will probably be similar to when a physical product is defective because of a faulty 3rd party component.

More importantly, as a professional software developer, the testing of my product should find problems in 3rd party components. If I chose poorly and the 3rd party component doesn't do what it's supposed to do, that's my responsibility. I can't just slough it off onto someone else.

my product should find problems in 3rd party components.

Does that mean that say a security vulnerability in openssl is a responsibility of all software which uses them? I think its unreasonable to expect software projects/products to find things like heartbleed.

What about bugs in kernel/OS? How many user-mode software can find bugs in kernel/OS?

The OS is not a 3rd party library. You're confusing two different topics here.

BTW: Software vendors find bugs in the OS all the time.

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