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Google Claims World First As AI Finds 0-Day Security Vulnerability | An AI agent has discovered a previously unknown, zero-day, exploitable memory-safety vulnerability in widely used real-world software.


Google’s Project Zero hackers and DeepMind boffins have collaborated to uncover a zero-day security vulnerability in real-world code for the first time using AI.

SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesAn AI agent has discovered a previously unknown, zero-day, exploitable memory-safety vulnerability in widely used real-world software. In the case of this world first, the Big Sleep team says it found “an exploitable stack buffer underflow in SQLite, a widely used open source database engine.” “This effort will lead to a significant advantage to defenders,” Google’s Big Sleep team said, “with the potential not only to find crashing test cases, but also to provide high-quality root-cause analysis, triaging and fixing issues could be much cheaper and more effective in the future.”

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