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TheTonyesterday at 7:12 PM1 replyview on HN

Right, this is why video parse / decode ought to be sandboxed. Writing secure code for these formats, especially in C, is really hard. I just sort of glanced at the bug in the repo, but it sounds plausible. It certainly wouldn’t be the first of its kind.


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tormehyesterday at 9:22 PM

And it's my impression the code is often in assembly, which is even less structured.