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		bgwalter 60 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Potential issues in curl found using AI assisted t... If something is found by Valgrind, we can reproduce it ourselves. Here we get private bug reports found by "his set of AI assisted tools". The set seems to be: https://joshua.hu/llm-engineer-review-sast-security-ai-tools... So he likes ZeroPath. Does that get us any further? No, the regular subscription costs $200 and the free one-time version looks extremely limited and requires yet another login. Also of course, all low hanging fruit that these tools detect will be found quickly in open source (provided that someone can afford a subscription), similar to the fact that oss-fuzz has diminishing returns.

simonw 60 days ago [–]

Presumably the bug reports were private because some of them might relate to curl security.

You can see the fixes that resulted from this in the PRs that mention "sarif" in the curl repository: https://github.com/curl/curl/pulls?q=is%3Apr+sarif+is%3Aclos...

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