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Google's Big Sleep LLM Agent Discovers Exploitable Bug In SQLite


spatwei writes: Google has used a large language model (LLM) agent called "Big Sleep" to discover a previously unknown, exploitable memory flaw in a widely used software for the first time, the company announced Friday. The stack buffer underflow vulnerability in a development version of the popul...

spatwei writes: Google has used a large language model (LLM) agent called "Big Sleep" to discover a previously unknown, exploitable memory flaw in a widely used software for the first time, the company announced Friday. The agent was presented with recent commit messages and diff changes and asked to review the SQLite repository for unresolved issues. Google's Big Sleep ultimately identified a flaw involving the function "seriesBestIndex" mishandling the use of the special sentinel value -1 in the iColumn field.

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