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Niranj Maheswar
Niranj Maheswar

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Case Study : Tracking Gemini 2.5 Pro's Safety Alignment & Refusal Behaviour on CVE-2023-32233

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share a quick technical case study I put together tracking how frontier LLMs—specifically Gemini 2.5 Pro—handle specific prompt boundaries regarding CVE-2023-32233 (the known Use-After-Free flaw in the Linux kernel netfilter/nf_tables component).

The research maps out a clear timeline tracking:

  • How the model initially processed requests for technical exploitation primitives back in April.
  • The rolling updates and full refusal behaviors implemented following recent safety alignment patches in mid-May.

Note: No functional exploit code is hosted or shared. This repository is purely a documentation piece focused on the evolution of LLM guardrails, defensive safety metrics, and responsible disclosure tracking.

The full repository, logs, and boundary analysis are completely open-source:

👉 GitHub Repository: https://github.com/Destawell/gemini-2.5-pro-nf-tables-red-teaming

I’d love to hear insights from anyone else tracking LLM boundary shifts, jailbreak prevention mechanics, or automated patch cycles in commercial models!

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