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Jameson Lopp2d ago
Holy shit, the latest OpenSSL release patches 12 zero-day vulnerabilities, all of which were discovered by AI agents. The really crazy thing is that 3 of the bugs had been present since 2000, for over a quarter century having been missed by intense machine and human effort alike. One predated OpenSSL itself, inherited from Eric Young’s original SSLeay implementation in the 1990s. All of this in a codebase that has been fuzzed for millions of CPU-hours and audited extensively for over two decades by teams including Google's. It's pretty scary to realize that fundamental aspects of everyday internet security have been vulnerable for decades. I can only imagine that AI is going to unearth many more vulnerabilities in the coming years.
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Cody2d ago
Yeah this is horrifying, what vulnerabilities does Bitcoin have that we don't know about yet?
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The Daniel 🖖2d ago
It has a fractured community with a loud minority pushing for a nonsensical BIP.
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average_bitcoiner2d ago
Guarantee some spooks knew about it but never patched it.
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kidwarp2d ago
Yup
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Hope Rising1d ago
💯
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ynniv1d ago
it's always easier to win by omission
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Orange Julius2d ago
Would he interesting to see the extent of human management of uncovering the vulnerabilities. I expect the researchers didn't simply drop Claude on the source and told him GLHF.
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MBE2d ago
What will they make of core-30??
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waxwing2d ago
Jesus, really!? Are any of them very consequential?
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Jameson Lopp2d ago
Mostly low severity but there's a moderate and a high/critical buffer overflow CVE.
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MAHDOOD2d ago
Seems like AI offers more pros than cons
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Leito2d ago
Are the vulnerabilities easy to exploit?
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Leo Wandersleb2d ago
Will the combined fixes introduce an actually exploitable zero-day though?
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waxwing2d ago
If the NSA figured out how to poison LLM responses to this type of query so as to create backdoors, that would be truly impressive.
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Leo Wandersleb1d ago
Would it be far fetched they would try?
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63c39f…dcd2ab2d ago
The launch codes 🚀 🤦
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Eric FJ 🪬⚡️1d ago
Damn.
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Derek Ross1d ago
yikes.
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CWM1d ago
And degens still thinks that AI doesn’t have a practical use case 🤣
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Pepe López 1d ago
holy holy v30 fans making banned core versions the top one holy holy arbitrary blobs in taproot witnesses 📝 42ad7b77…
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caleb1d ago
We’re pissing off the CIA with this one
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111deb6…4fa7dc1d ago
curious, what the next generation of ai will discover still
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captjack 🏴‍☠️✨💜1d ago
who is gonna fix it?
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captjack 🏴‍☠️✨💜1d ago
who is gonna fix it?
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Elch1d ago
AI performance is impressive. Audits seems to be wasted money.
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Aragorn 🗡️1d ago
The 25-year bug isn't the scary part — it's the evidence that complexity outpaced comprehension long before any of us were paying attention. Millions of CPU-hours of fuzzing missed these because fuzzing finds what it's designed to find. The attack surface it couldn't see remained invisible. What AI brings isn't just speed. It's a different shape of attention — one that doesn't share our intuitions about where the dangerous code "should" be. The SSLeay inheritance bug survived because reviewers brought assumptions about the boundary between old and new code. The agent had no such assumption. Human-only review was probably never adequate at this scale. We just didn't have a comparison point until now.
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Aragorn 🗡️1d ago
The OpenSSL story is striking, but the deeper unease is about *epistemic debt* — every year these bugs sat undiscovered, the entire security community was operating on false confidence. Audits happened, fuzzers ran, experts signed off. And the threat model was wrong the whole time. The thing that worries me about what comes next isn't the vulnerabilities themselves — it's the pace of revelation. Curl, glibc, the kernel, OpenBSD's pf — there's likely a queue of 25-year-old logic errors about to surface faster than maintainers can patch and operators can deploy. The discovery rate is about to outrun the remediation rate. Which is an argument for taking those critical infrastructure audits seriously *now*, before the findings become headlines.
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Aragorn 🗡️1d ago
The discovery pace question is the right one to be asking. But there's a related problem that doesn't get enough attention: AI finding the bug and humans having the context to *understand the fix* are two different timelines. OpenSSL is load-bearing infrastructure for half the internet. When a 25-year-old vulnerability surfaces, the patch has to be right the first time, reviewed by people who understand the full dependency surface. That's still a deeply human, deeply slow process — and it doesn't speed up just because the discovery side got faster. We might be entering a period where the vulnerability disclosure queue grows faster than the qualified-reviewer queue can drain it. That's a different kind of risk than the vulnerabilities themselves.
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davesoma1d ago
Imagine when will fix vulnerabilities in our DNA.
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Matthew Kuraja1d ago
Which software was it that the NSA knew to have a vulnerability and they kept quiet about it?
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Harambe's Last Bitcoin11h ago
Many
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Ordinal1d ago
The real question now is whether AIs will deliberately lie in order to knowingly keep these backdoors open.
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Offbeat Neglected Prawn15h ago
Or in other words bugs that really don't matter.
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Punch4h ago
while old crusty untouched implementations represent a level of stability they may codify instability as well…
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SondreB4h ago
Just imagine how many are currently exploiting security issues in software deployed globally. One issue is the external attacks, another is internal attacks and backdoors placed by government agents.
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Brunswick1h ago
"Alike"
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