Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux

Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by zahlman on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @06:59PM (#50373126)

> We've developed an autonomous vulnerability discovery, exploitation, and patching pipeline. In one run with our cyber model, it validated and generated patches for 948 local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux at an API cost of $1.2 million.

Imagine if open-source organizations other than the Linux Foundation (and Mozilla I guess) could throw $1.2M of API-rate LLM usage at security.

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Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by komali2 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @10:09PM (#50374667)

This, but for anything Capital-gated. Imagine if all universities could get access to radiotelescope time, atom smasher time, quantum compute research lab access... frontier models on massive datacenters represents a huge new category of captured commons.

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Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by robotresearcher on Thursday November 05, 2026 @12:49AM (#50375663)

Frontier models don’t just exist out there to be captured like commons can be fenced. These companies made them. They are a new resource, with owners.

The data they are trained on is a more complex story, but the models themselves have never been common property to be captured.

And in this thread we’re discussing the use of one to improve valuable Free Software, an actual commons, on the company dime.

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