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I don't get why you think linking to multiple legitimate and high quality bug reports with detailed analysis and precise reproduction instructions demonstrates "slop". It is the opposite.

This is software that is directly or indirectly run by millions of people on untrusted media files without sandboxing. It's not even that they don't care about security, it's that they're unaware that they should care. It should go without saying that they don't deserve to be hacked just because of that. Big companies doing tons of engineering work to add defense in depth for use cases on their own infrastructure (via sandboxing or disabling obsolete codecs) doesn't help those users. Finding and fixing the vulnerabilities does.



All of these reports are effectively autogenerated by Big Sleep from fuzzing.

Again, Google has been doing this sort of thing for over a decade and has found untold thousands of vulnerabilities like this one. It is not at all clear to me that their doing so has been all that valuable.


Google fuzzing open source projects has eliminated a lot of low hanging fruit from being exploited. I am surprised you think that finding these vulnerabilities so they can be fixed has not been valuable.


AI found the bug, but the analysis and bug report were entirely written by a human without AI assistance. Source: I work with the author.




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