CVE flood pushes Ubuntu onto weekly kernel release cycle
REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); "Large language models (LLMs) and specialized AI agents have transformed bug discovery from a manual, time-intensive process into a highly automated engine," Canonical said on Wednesday. REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/c'); }); AI isn't solely responsible for the CVE avalanche. The upstream Linux kernel community became a CVE Numbering Authority in 2024 and began assigning identifiers to thousands of bugs on the basis that almost any kernel flaw affecting a running system could have security implications.Put the two together, and Linux vendors have far more CVEs to deal with.
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