AI Autonomously Finds 7 FFmpeg Vulnerabilities
9 days ago
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- ZeroPath's AI-assisted SAST identified seven memory safety flaws in FFmpeg's protocol handlers, parsers, filters, and Android glue code.
- The vulnerabilities include buffer overflows, off-by-one errors, integer overflows, and invalid frees, each stemming from logical flaws in the code.
- Traditional static analysis tools and fuzzers missed these issues due to their subtlety and the need for cross-function contract reasoning.
- ZeroPath's AI SAST uses symbolic execution, unit reasoning, and contract inference to detect these vulnerabilities by proving the existence of violating inputs.
- All identified vulnerabilities have been patched by the FFmpeg team.
- The blog post highlights the importance of AI in identifying complex security issues that conventional tools overlook.