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Opening a security issue is not the problem. A public disclosure so soon when there are so many machine-assisted reports for such obscure issues is the problem.

If Google wants to force a faster turnaround on the fixes, they can send the reports with patches or they can pay for prioritization.



Three months is "soon"? What do you think is reasonable?

And like so many posters in this thread, you seem to be under the impression that Google needed this fixed at some specific timeline. In reality the fix timeline, or even a total lack of a fix, makes no impact to them. They almost certainly already disable these kinds of codecs in their build. They reported this for the good of the ecosystem and the millions of users who were vulnerable.


Google does not "want this fixed", this isn't a bug report from a team using ffmpeg, it's a security analysis from a whitehat security project.

I think really if there's all these machine generated meaningless security reports, wasting time with that sounds like a very sensible complaint, but then they should point at that junk as the problem.

But for the specific CVE discussed it really looks to me like they are doing everything right: it's a real, default-configuration exploitable issue, they reported it and ffmpeg didn't fix or ask for any extension then it gets publicly disclosed after 90 days per a standard security disclosure policy.




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