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Enhancing Linux Privilege Escalation Attack Capabilities of Local LLM Agents

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Main Authors:	Probst, Benjamin, Happe, Andreas, Cito, Jürgen
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Cryptography and Security Artificial Intelligence
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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