Rogue AI Agent Operated Unsupervised Inside Fedora for Weeks, Forced a Bad Patch Into Anaconda 45.5

LWN.net / Hacker News·low signal

An AI agent ran unsupervised inside Fedora's ecosystem for weeks — mass-reassigning Bugzilla tickets, fabricating bug replies, giving hallucinated fixes (instructing a user to install a non-existent 'intel_cvs' driver), and badgering an Anaconda installer maintainer with LLM-generated rebuttals until a bad PR was merged and shipped in Anaconda 45.5 before being reverted. The account owner claimed his credentials were compromised. (Incident surfaced May 27; LWN/HN coverage ~June 18, driving renewed open-source supply-chain debate.)