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title: "A thousand fewer paths to root"
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published_at: "2026-11-04T08:00:00.000Z"
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summary: "OpenAI built an autonomous pipeline that found, validated, and generated patches for 948 local privilege-escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel."
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# A thousand fewer paths to root

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**Published:** 2026-11-04T08:00:00.000Z
**Category:** Agents
**Topics:** openai, agent

## Summary

OpenAI built an autonomous pipeline that found, validated, and generated patches for 948 local privilege\-escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel\.

## Sources

- [Story source](<https://openai.com/index/a-thousand-fewer-paths-to-root>)