The Most Dangerous Codec in the World [pdf]

A better title would be "H.264: The Most Dangerous Codec in the World [pdf]"

Meta: always up for some USENIX content:

They've run a lot of interesting conferences over the decades.

(H.264)

Not a domain expert, but it seems like fuzzing, basically; syntactically correct but non-compliant inputs.

Funny that it's provided in one of the most dangerous filetypes.

The codec itself isn't dangerous, the exploits are.

technologies and their specifications are dangerous themselves if they're likely to result in security bugs