Add SECURITY.md with a private vulnerability disclosure path

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Adds a SECURITY.md to qbraid-qir, which currently has no documented way to report a
vulnerability privately. A researcher's only options today are a public issue, which
discloses the problem to everyone at once, or guessing at an email address.

qBraid/qBraid already carries one; this adapts it for qbraid-qir and points at this
repository's own private advisory form.

Two deliberate differences from the qBraid/qBraid version:

• No hardcoded version table. The existing policy pins "0.7.x" as supported, which
  has been stale since 0.8. This one states support for the most recent minor release,
  so it does not need editing on every release.
• A section on upstream dependencies. qbraid-qir reaches third-party packages through
  optional extras, and a reporter should know where to send an issue that originates
  upstream, and that we still want to hear about it so we can assess exposure through
  a path this package creates.

Related: qBraid/pyqasm#382.

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  • Added a security policy outlining supported versions, vulnerability reporting procedures, response expectations, and recommended report details.

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Added SECURITY.md with guidance for supported releases, private vulnerability reporting, dependency vulnerabilities, response expectations, and required report details.

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Security Policy

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Security policy guidance SECURITY.md	Documents supported qbraid-qir releases, GitHub private advisory reporting, dependency vulnerability handling, response expectations, and requested report details.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~2 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 9d442

The new policy provides a private vulnerability disclosure path, but its supported-version wording could cause inconsistent guidance about which releases receive security support. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness or a follow-up clarification.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the added SECURITY.md file and its primary purpose: providing a private vulnerability disclosure path.
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Inline comments:
In `@SECURITY.md`:
- Around line 5-7: Clarify the qbraid-qir security-support statement by
explicitly defining whether support covers the entire latest MAJOR.MINOR release
line, including all patch releases, or only one exact version; update the
wording near the existing “most recent minor release” statement so the supported
range is unambiguous.

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[ryanhill1]

Good catch, and applied here and on the sibling PRs (qBraid/pyqasm#383, qBraid/qbraid-algorithms#93).

"Most recent minor release" was ambiguous between one exact version and the whole latest MAJOR.MINOR line. It now reads:

the most recent MAJOR.MINOR version together with every patch release within it. For example, if the current release is 1.2.3, then 1.2.x is supported and 1.1.x is not.

Patch releases are where security fixes ship, so supporting only one exact version would have meant the policy stopped applying the moment we cut the fix.