Linus Torvalds says Linux security list is becoming ‘unmanageable’ due to AI bug reports

Source: The Verge

Overview

Linux founder Linus Torvalds said in his most recent State of the Kernel post that the “continued flood of AI reports has basically made the security list almost entirely unmanageable, with enormous duplication due to different people finding the same things with the same tools,” as reported by The Register.

Specific Example

The “Copy Fail” exploit, which was detected with the help of AI and affected nearly every Linux distribution, is an example of a vulnerability that does not suffer from this duplication problem.

Torvalds’ Clarification

“The documentation may be a bit less blunt than I am,” Torvalds said. “So just to make it really clear: if you found a bug using AI tools, the chances are somebody else found it too.”

Further Reading

• Full story on The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/…
• Original report on The Register: https://www.theregister.com/…