Researcher Says AI Helped Develop Linux Traffic-Control Race Into Root Exploit
STAR Labs has published a Linux kernel exploit that turns an ordinary local user into root on the CentOS Stream 9 build it targeted. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-53264 (CVSS score: 7.8), is a use-after-free race in the kernel's network traffic-control subsystem.Researcher Lee Jia Jie said artificial intelligence (AI) helped him find the bug and speed up exploit development. This is local
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Researcher Says AI Helped Develop Linux Traffic-Control Race Into Root Exploit Why it matters: Latency changes affect UX and cost envelopes. Revalidate timeout budgets and route-level fallbacks. Source: The Hacker News https://a2zai.ai/bytes/researcher-says-ai-helped-develop...
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