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Counterpoint we have a CVE attributable to ours and I suspect the difference is my co-founder was an offensive kernel researcher so our system is tuned for this in a way your average...ambulance chaser is unable to do.

https://blog.bismuth.sh/blog/bismuth-found-the-atop-bug

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-31160

The amount of bad reports curl in particular has gotten is staggering and it's all from people who have no background just latching onto a tool that won't elevate them.

Edit: Also shoutout to one of our old professors Brendan Dolan-Gavitt who now works on offensive security agents who has a highly ranked vulnerability agent XBOW.

https://hackerone.com/xbow?type=user

So these tools are there and doing real work its just there are so many people looking for a quick buck that you really have to tease the noise from the bs.



I would try to find a better example than CVE-2025-31160. If you ask me, this kind of 'vulnerability' is CVE spam.


Except if you read the blog post we helped a very confused maintainer when they had this dropped on them with no explanation on hacker news except "oooh potential scary heap vuln"




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