CODEX HACKED A SAMSUNG TV

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OpenAI's Codex successfully escalated privileges to gain root access on a Samsung Smart TV. Researchers provided Codex with an initial browser shell foothold and the TV's firmware source, tasking the AI with finding a vulnerability to achieve root. Codex identified a critical flaw in the `ntksys` kernel driver, which allowed it to map arbitrary physical memory into user space and overwrite the browser process's kernel credentials.