{"slug": "getting-llms-drunk-to-find-remote-linux-kernel-oob-writes-and-more", "title": "Getting LLMs Drunk to Find Remote Linux Kernel OOB Writes (and More)", "summary": "A self-orchestrating team of LLM-driven vulnerability-hunting agents has discovered over 20 CVEs in recent months, including CVE-2026-31432 and CVE-2026-31433, two remote, unauthenticated out-of-bounds write flaws in the Linux kernel. The findings demonstrate that large language models, when properly harnessed, can now autonomously identify critical kernel vulnerabilities that were previously difficult to detect.", "body_md": "*TLDR: the grossly overengineered, self-orchestrating team of vulnerability-hunting agents detailed below has discovered 20+ CVEs over the past few months, including CVE-2026-31432 and CVE-2026-31433: two remote, unauthenticated OOB writes in the Linux kernel’s *\n\n“LLMing” vulnerability research has been on my “Do Something About This” list since DARPA’s [AIxCC](https://www.darpa.mil/research/programs/ai-cyber) and XBOW’s [initial results](https://xbow.com/blog/xbow-scoold-vuln). But back in 2023-24, models required a lot of harnessing to get anything useful, tool use was rudimentary, and the idea of squeezing as much code as I could into a model’s context – then triaging away the false positives – filled me with dread.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/getting-llms-drunk-to-find-remote-linux-kernel-oob-writes-and-more", "canonical_source": "https://heyitsas.im/posts/drinking-llms/", "published_at": "2026-04-29 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-28 19:20:34.307425+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "artificial-intelligence", "ai-agents", "ai-research", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["DARPA", "AIxCC", "XBOW", "Linux kernel", "CVE-2026-31432", "CVE-2026-31433"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/getting-llms-drunk-to-find-remote-linux-kernel-oob-writes-and-more", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/getting-llms-drunk-to-find-remote-linux-kernel-oob-writes-and-more.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/getting-llms-drunk-to-find-remote-linux-kernel-oob-writes-and-more.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/getting-llms-drunk-to-find-remote-linux-kernel-oob-writes-and-more.jsonld"}}