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eipi10_hnyesterday at 6:52 PM1 replyview on HN

Duh no, wtf. No one has the duty to fix the security issue unless they are paid for the open source codes they give. They don't threaten you to use their codes either.

If you want the security issue to be fixed, make a PR or offer the price you are willing to pay for them to fix.


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bawolffyesterday at 10:10 PM

By the same token nobody has the duty to responsibly disclose security bugs. The entire premise of responsible disclosure is that security researchers give time for upstream projects to fix security issues by privately reporting the issues, in exchange the maintainers graciously accept the reports. Its a deal that benefits maintainers much more than it benefits researchers. If ffmpeg doesn't want that deal, then google should go the full disclosure route.

> If you want the security issue to be fixed,

There is no indication that google actually cared much whether the issue got fixed or not. It seems like the course of events is that they noticed something looked wrong with the code so they filed a bug. That's it.

> willing to pay for them to fix.

Should ffmpeg pay for security researchers time to find these issues? The market price for that is much much much higher than the price to fix bugs.

If you were to pay someone to do vulnerability testing in ffmpeg with sufficient skill to find this issue, it would probably cost you in the hundreds of thousands of dollars at least.

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