A thousand fewer paths to root

OpenAI developed an autonomous pipeline that identified, validated, and produced patches for 948 local privilege‑escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. The system automatically discovered the issues, confirmed their validity, and generated the necessary code fixes. This demonstrates a large-scale, automated approach to kernel security remediation.

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