Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux

Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by wormius on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @09:36PM (#50374415)

I'm pro OpenBSD, but the question to me seems: Has this been tested via the same means as these new Linux exploits?

I'm also pretty hostile to AI, but do recognize that these machines seem to be very good at finding exploits.

I'm sure there've been some some projects out there working to pentest/find cracks in OpenBSD via LLMs/agents/whatever-the-right-term-would-be...

But it is true the attack surface is much lower in OpenBSD on purpose, so hopefully it is overall more secure. But I'd like to see the numbers.

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Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by pianopatrick on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @09:50PM (#50374504)

I think there was something found a while ago, but only one or two things not thousands.

I think the only OS that's truly survived the agents looking at it was sel4, but I could be wrong.

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Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by x-complexity on Thursday November 05, 2026 @01:13AM (#50375799)

> I think there was something found a while ago, but only one or two things not thousands.

Then they need to check again now. The frontier models 6 months ago have been leapt over by the current frontier models.

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Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by angry_octet on Thursday November 05, 2026 @05:54AM (#50377674)

BSD is used by very few computers. Important ones perhaps, but it isn't at the top of many target lists.

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Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by gertop on Thursday November 05, 2026 @09:15PM (#50387304)

Grouping all BSDs together is a mistake. Exploits found for one likely won't apply to any other.

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