About how hard writing a working exploit for an XNU kernel buffer overflow really is.
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About how hard writing a working exploit for an XNU kernel buffer overflow really is.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
There's nobody more confident in the world, than HN poster wiring about a topic they have no experience with.
There is a huge gap (in the binary exploitation world) between identifying a problematic code pattern and having a workable bug (a reproduction), and even larger one between a reproducible crash and a working exploit (because we're not in the 90s anymore and complier/hardware mitigations are literally always enabled). Current LLMs can cross neither gap, and are not even close to bridging the second one.