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Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by treebeard901 on Thursday November 05, 2026 @02:33AM (#50376235)
> Large, complex software projects likely require multiple rounds of scanning and fixing vulnerabilities to “bottom out” latent bugs. Ideally this process is repeated with each subsequent generation of frontier models. This applies to both proprietary and open source software.

One of the most important paragraphs from the article. Real implications for software development from a security perspective for new and existing software. Every software developer and vendor has a choice... Submit your code base to a frontier model to have it reviewed and fix all the bugs. Each time a new model is released, this process must be done again. If your company is against submitting your code to the frontier model companies for the many good reasons to avoid doing it, your software will eventually become a target if it isn't already. Then your company will be forced to scan the software and deal with the fallout from getting hacked.

If the Linux kernel has this many exploits, and it has been audited more than most other software... Then it seems obvious that all other software is even less secure.

Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by lifeisloving on Thursday November 05, 2026 @02:58AM (#50376406)
This just translates to,

"you're going to need to do multiple rounds of scanning so we recommend budgeting $3.6 million a year for buying tokens from us not just $1.2 million.

Dont worry just give us a few million dollars and you'll never get hacked, you can cut your security staff in half to pay for it! We definately wont cause more bugs!"

Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by hypfer on Thursday November 05, 2026 @03:01AM (#50376432)
> If your company is against submitting your code to the frontier model companies for the many good reasons to avoid doing it, your software will eventually become a target if it isn't already.

Yeah yeah we're all going to be left behind if we do not jump off the same cliff everyone else is jumping off.

It is wrong to try to take your own lessons from this and do the thing but in a less harmful way. Just do exactly what the labs want you to do.

Jesus man

Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by miki123211 on Thursday November 05, 2026 @03:34AM (#50376679)
Have there been significant AI-assisted exploits found against software which is not written in memory-unsafe languages?

As models get better and porting costs get lower, maybe it's better to bite the bullet and RRiR instead of having a minor bugpocalypse every 3 months, as each subsequent generation of frontier models finds sev-high CVEs?

Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by RunSet on Thursday November 05, 2026 @10:24AM (#50380263)
I am inclined to doubt any praise for rust because of its strong association with the world's largest advertising conglomerate. If codebases can be too large to reason about, might that not also be true of Rust's codebase?
Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by loremium on Thursday November 05, 2026 @04:32AM (#50377102)
Security has been treated by corporations as a cost factor only and therefore ignored for years and now it starts to hurt not having taken care of in the first place.