---
id: 2403
title: "[CVE-2015-5949] Summer @ Trail of Bits"
cve: CVE-2015-5949
source_domain: blog.trailofbits.com
source_url: "https://blog.trailofbits.com/2015/09/10/summer-trail-of-bits/"
published_at: "2015-09-10T11:50:45Z"
tags: ["bug-bounty", "vulnerability-research", "fuzzing", "cve", "vulnerability-discovery", "internship", "imagemagick", "afl", "wireshark", "vlc", "cve-2015-5949"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/2403"
lang: en
---

# [CVE-2015-5949] Summer @ Trail of Bits

## Summary

High school intern Loren Maggiore recounts his summer at Trail of Bits: fuzzing VLC, Wireshark, and ImageMagick with AFL, tracking a suspicious segfault to CVE-2015-5949, then web bug bounty work.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.trailofbits.com
- **CVE:** CVE-2015-5949
- **Published:** 2015-09-10T11:50:45Z
- **Original:** https://blog.trailofbits.com/2015/09/10/summer-trail-of-bits/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/2403