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by vbezhenar 1891 days ago
You can't expect absence of security holes. ffmpeg is an extremely complex piece of software written with unsafe C and unsafe assembler. It's full of security holes, that's for sure. If that's of concern to you, use additional security measures to mitigate that threat.
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> It's full of security holes, that's for sure.

You have a funny usage of the word "sure".

Without any review of the code, I personally wouldn't be able to guess how secure it was.

Just look at the CVEs. Most of them come from codecs