alt Hacker News> Maybe curl is significantly better hardened than most projects?
Meanwhile from [1]:
"Not even half-way through this #curl release cycle we are already at 11 confirmed vulnerabilities - and there are three left in the queue to assess and new reports keep arriving at a pace of more than one/day."
"The simple reason is: the (AI powered) tools are this good now. And people use these tools against curl source code.They find lots of new problems no one detected before. And none of these new ones used Mythos. Focusing on Mythos is a distraction - there are plenty of good models, and people who can figure out how to get those models and tools to find things."
Yeah, it looks like there are at least 11 security bugs missed by Mythos.
[1] https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7463481...
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I don't think anyone has claimed that Mythos finds all vulns in all projects. But it's very good if Mozilla's blog posts are anything to go by.
Based on the article here, and Firefox's mythos article, they had found bugs with Opus 4.6 as well but mythos is finding more that it missed.
That would align with the curl feedback you linked, they aren't using mythos but are finding bugs with other models. Presumably the expectation would be that with mythos they'd find more that were missed by other models already used.
I’m trying to reconcile this with TFA. Because the article says that the majority of vulns found by Mythos are being reported by independent researchers after validation. They never said those reports inform that mythos was involved - and I suspect they don’t. So did any of these 11 CVEs come from that channel?