Backporting security fixes at scale with Codex
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Trail of Bits describes using Codex, with GPT-5.6, to speed up backporting security fixes to stable Linux kernel releases, Ubuntu LTS, and Fedora. They report that human preparation and review of a straightforward backport now takes about 30 minutes, versus days previously, and that 149 CVE fixes have reached stable…