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tptacek • yesterday at 9:16 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

That's a good catch. Yes, since they've only proven this up to the jailer boundary, you'd need a second and relatively powerful LPE vulnerability to get real host control out of this.


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rvz • today at 12:37 AM

Thanks to frontier reasoning agents, Linux is completely riddled in ways you can discover 900+ LPE vulnerabilities. [0]

Another wave of vulnerabilities like this are yet to be discovered in Linux. We are just seeing how weak C and C++ based OSes and kernels are when put under hundreds of AI agents.

[0] https://openai.com/index/a-thousand-fewer-paths-to-root/