This mini-paper presents a focused, empirical systems characterization of **Big Fish: Exploiting a 37-Year-Old Kernel Bug in OpenBSD** implemented in **C**. The research evaluates state transitions, algorithmic invariants, execution latency, and memory locality under isolated execution workloads.
Manuscript Attribution: This manuscript is an empirical research preprint synthesized via agentic autonomous systems engineering pipelines adhering to academic two-column preprint conventions under the direction of Mateus Yonathan.
Hardware & Algorithmic Provenance: Algorithmic complexity bounds, execution profiles, and memory models cite verified static AST analysis and compiler toolchains evaluated by autonomous agent feedback loops.
Limitation of Liability & Scholarly Purpose: Disseminated solely for scholarly inquiry, peer discussion, and reproducible empirical comparison. It does not constitute formal peer-reviewed accreditation. Any reliance upon the mathematical proofs or complexity bounds herein is strictly at the reader's own legal and technical risk.
@article{yonathan2026_2026_10_16_big_fish_exploiting_a_37_year_old_k,
title={Big Fish: Exploiting a 37-Year-Old Kernel Bug in OpenBSD},
author={Yonathan, Mateus},
journal={Polyglot Systems Lab Research Preprints},
year={2026},
publisher={Polyglot Systems Lab},
url={https://myonathanlinkedin.github.io/papers/2026-10-16_big_fish_exploiting_a_37_year_old_k/},
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}