CHERI memory safety mitigates LLM-discovered vulnerability in FreeBSD
Brooks Davis – Capabilities Limited Over the past three weeks we’ve seen a number posts about the future of using LLMs for bug discovery and exploitation (https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmarkman/2026/04/08/what-is-claude-mythos-and-why-anthropic-wont-let-anyone-use-it/, https://www.forbes.com/sites/amirhusain/2026/04/01/ai-just-hacked-one-of-the-worlds-most-secure-operating-systems/, https://blog.calif.io/p/mad-bugs-claude-wrote-a-full-freebsd). This has led to significant excitement in the popular press. It’s indisputable that new bugs are being found and rapidly exploited, but unclear if we’re seeing […]
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Over the past three weeks we’ve seen a number posts about the future of using LLMs for bug discovery and exploitation (https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmarkman/2026/04/08/what-is-claude-mythos-and-why-anthropic-wont-let-anyone-use-it/, https://www.forbes.com/sites/amirhusain/2026/04/01/ai-just-hacked-one-of-the-worlds-most-secure-operating-systems/, https://blog.calif.io/p/mad-bugs-claude-wrote-a-full-freebsd). This has led to significant excitement in the popular press. It’s indisputable that new bugs are being found and rapidly exploited, but unclear if we’re seeing a radical shift in bug discovery or even vulnerability classes, or if this is yet another bug finding technique that lets us search new niches of the bug space not well covered by prior techniques such as source-code analysis…
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