praetorian.com· Jun 17, 2026· by Michelle Rhodes

FreeBSoD: Leveraging Language Models to Find and Exploit Kernel Bugs (Part 1 of 2)

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Overview Earlier this year, a team at Praetorian was building Constantine, our automated 0-day discovery engine. I wanted to find techniques worth folding into it, so on the side I started poking at the FreeBSD kernel with Claude Code, running on Opus 4.6, which was the latest Opus model at the time. A few days […] The post FreeBSoD: Leveraging Language Models to Find and Exploit Kernel Bugs (Part 1 of 2) appeared first on Praetorian.
🎯 Vulnerability: Web Security Vulnerability
💡 Defense Fix: Implement strict input validation, contextual output encoding, and enforce least-privilege authorization controls.
#Offensive Security#Vulnerability Research#AI Security#Claude Code#CodeQL#CVE-2026-3038#Exploit Development#FreeBSD