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AI Agent Uncovers 21 Zero-Days in FFmpeg; Chrome Patches Record 429 Bugs (thehackernews.com)
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[–] 40 points 5 months ago (16 children)

What the fuck is a zero day in the context of ffmpeg?

Its not like its a system service that you can get ingress through..

"AI found 21 bugs in massive video project" sounds like junior developer shit hungry to get some shit on their resume.

Even if it wasn't AI slop, this wouldn't be impressive.

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago

    From the article

    Most are heap or stack overflows in parsers and demuxers, spanning components from the TS demuxer to the VP9 decoder. depthfirst says some already carry CVE identifiers; its writeup lists nine, CVE-2026-39210 through CVE-2026-39218, and notes the rest are fixed but not yet numbered. It also published a PoC.

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  • [–] 34 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Its not like its a system service that you can get ingress through..

    With a competently crafted payload, you could perhaps get in via someone's transcoding pipeline.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Does nobody isolate ffmpeg and friends from their application?

    I can't imagine you'd have much fun breaking into a container that terminates the moment the original ffmpeg stops, or over-runs its max execution time..

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    FFMPEG in the command line generally has permission to access the entire non-sudo filesystem and delete files.

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  • [+] -6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Discovering bugs is not "AI slop".

    That term refers to something the AI made. This is just product testing, where a real human then fixes it as intended.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    Many moderate to large open source projects are effectively being ddosed by vibe coders submitting hallucinated and non-issue bug reports solely because claude or copilot said so. Those reports are absolutely slop, no different from anything else generative ai platforms shit out.

    But sure, go off on how this particular kind of output from an LLM is somehow different from rest.

    Edit: fixed a typo

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago

    Indeed. AI agents cannot "discover" zero days, they can only discover vulnerabilities. The humans can create zero days by reporting the vulnerability in the media without disclosing it properly.

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