logoalt Hacker News

rustyhancock • today at 1:11 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

I think everyone is over fixated on AI finding complex bugs beyond a typical person's understanding either to locate or exploit.

I think for any one of those bugs there might simply be half a dozen footguns or bugs that once it's spelled out you wonder how anyone let it slide.

I think that's the case where LLMs might indentify most.

It's challenging though as the current AI audits produce so many false positives it's hard to know when it's being pedantic or when it's genuinely caught a human being a bone head


Replies

svnt • today at 3:34 PM

This one might be hard to find using the author’s approach of throwing everything at various builds of ssh.

It is not really that hard to find in the wild if you had a device built this way, when overflowing buffers on embedded devices is a standard attack vector.

It might be hard to root cause, but it would not be that hard to find.

jamal-kumar • today at 1:38 PM

Finding more and more that these complex bugs people gloss over like you are now are being used in exploit chains and the end result is still my clients getting hacked