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AI Agent Uncovers 21 Zero-Days in FFmpeg; Chrome Patches Record 429 Bugs (thehackernews.com)

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[–] nitroemdash@lemmy.wtf 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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[–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

Yes but why are we allowing user input to be fed to an executable in that environment?

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 4 points 5 months ago

This is the environment that almost all user software is executed.

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