Project Zero: Effective Fuzzing: A Dav1d Case Study

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Summary:
- The article provides a detailed case study on effective fuzzing techniques used to discover vulnerabilities in the dav1d AV1 video decoder library.
- It discusses the importance of using a combination of different fuzzing approaches, including coverage-guided fuzzing and mutation-based fuzzing, to uncover a wide range of potential issues.
- The article highlights the effectiveness of the techniques used, which led to the discovery of several significant vulnerabilities in the dav1d library, and emphasizes the value of continuous security research and testing for critical software components.

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