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Google's 'Big Sleep' AI Project uncovers real software vulnerabilities
The company's experimental AI agent finds a previously unknown and exploitable software bug in SQLite, an open-source database engine.
“We believe this is the first public example of an AI agent finding a previously unknown exploitable memory-safety issue in widely used real-world software,” Google’s security researchers wrote in a blog post on Friday. Google also developed Big Sleep to look out for variants of existing security bugs, which are often a recurring problem in today’s software that hackers will eagerly exploit. “Recently, we decided to put our models and tooling to the test by running our first extensive, real-world variant analysis experiment on SQLite,” Google researchers wrote.
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