They pointed Anthropic’s scanner at their library and woke up to 36 bugs, 6 of them security holes

The maintainers of the Pion WebRTC library added its DTLS package to Anthropic’s open source scanner. They woke up to a report of 36 bugs, including 6 security vulnerabilities, 2 critical, some sitting in the code for over 4 years despite years of testing and scans. Fixes went in the same project.

How it works

The maintainers add Pion DTLS to the scanner
The scanner runs over the code
They wake up to a report of 36 bugs, 6 of them security vulnerabilities
They review them by hand and the fixes go in

Why it’s worth knowing

Bugs that survived 4 years of testing and security scans were sitting in a report the next morning.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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