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Re:FFmpeg and a thousand fixes by mutagen on Friday January 10, 2014 @02:16PM (#7038700)
> I wonder how many of the bugs led to code execution?

The linked blog article [1] suggests 10% - 20%:

  Our personal feeling is that between 10% and 20% of the 
  problems could be considered easily exploitable security 
  issues; however, the estimation has not been formally  
  confirmed in any way.
[1] http://j00ru.vexillium.org/?p=2211
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