hacker.house and r netsec share that Claude produced a working FreeBSD kernel remote code execution exploit quickly, and Thomas H. Ptacek says Thai Duong's team got a reliable remote kernel RCE, signaling faster offensive capability from LLMs.
MAD Bugs: Claude Wrote a Full FreeBSD Remote Kernel RCE with Root Shell (CVE-2026-4747)
Ouch, Claude wrote (from a prompt) a complete FreeBSD kernel n-day RCE exploit from an advisory, stack overflow, best conditions for it - debugged and completed it in under a day.
They had Claude shake a stick at FreeBSD, and got a reliable remote kernel RCE. This is happening. It's happening fast. It's going to get crazier.
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