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The Most Dangerous Codec in the World [pdf]

• jruohonen 3y ago
  Not a domain expert, but it seems like fuzzing, basically; syntactically correct but non-compliant inputs.
• ReactiveJelly 3y ago
  (H.264)
• throw0101a 3y ago
  Meta: always up for some USENIX content: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USENIX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USENIX They've run a lot of interesting conferences over the decades.
• deleted 3y ago
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• ryanisnan 3y ago
  A better title would be "H.264: The Most Dangerous Codec in the World [pdf]"
• Kikawala 3y ago
  Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35356201 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35356201
• Aldipower 3y ago
  The codec itself isn't dangerous, the exploits are.
  • g-b-r 3y ago
    technologies and their specifications are dangerous themselves if they're likely to result in security bugs
• Zetobal 3y ago
  Funny that it's provided in one of the most dangerous filetypes.