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From TFA:

> The latest episode was sparked after a Google AI agent found an especially obscure bug in FFmpeg. How obscure? This “medium impact issue in ffmpeg,” which the FFmpeg developers did patch, is “an issue with decoding LucasArts Smush codec, specifically the first 10-20 frames of Rebel Assault 2, a game from 1995.”

This doesn't feel like a medium-severity bug, and I think "Perhaps reconsider the severity" is a polite reading. I get that it's a bug either way, but this leaves me with a vague feeling of the ffmpeg maintainer's time being abused.

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