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ChatGPT's o3 Model Found Remote Zeroday in Linux Kernel Code (linuxiac.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Maybe I misunderstood but the vulnerability was unknown to them but the class of vulnerability, let's say "bugs like that", are well known and published by the security community, aren't there?

My point being that if it's previously unknown and reproducible (not just "luck") is major, if it's well known in other projects, even though unknown to this specific user, then it's unsurprising.

Edit: I'm not a security researcher but I believe there are already a lot of tools doing static and dynamic analysis. IMHO It'd be helpful to know how those perform already versus LLMs used here, namely across which dimensions (reliability, speed, coverage e.g. exotic programming languages, accuracy of reporting e.g. hallucinations, computation complexity and thus energy costs, openness, etc) is each solution better or worst than the other. I'm always wary of "ex nihilo" demonstrations. Apologies if there is benchmark against existing tools and if I missed that.