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CLAUDE CODE FOUND A LINUX VULNERABILITY HIDDEN FOR 23 YEARS

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Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini used Claude Code to uncover several Linux kernel vulnerabilities, including a 23-year-old heap buffer overflow in the NFS driver. This achievement shows AI's growing capability to independently identify complex security flaws.