Kernel Exploit

Exploiting CVE-2014-0196 a walk-through of the Linux pty race condition PoC

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Introduction Recently a severe vulnerability in the Linux kernel was publicly disclosed and patched. In this post we’ll analyze what this particular security vulnerability looks like in the Linux kernel code and walk you through the publicly published proof-of-concept exploit code by Matthew Daley released May 12th 2014. The original post by the SUSE security team … Read more

How to exploit the x32 recvmmsg() kernel vulnerability CVE 2014-0038

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On January 31st 2014 a post appeared on oss-seclist [1] describing a bug in the Linux kernel implementation of the x32 recvmmsg syscall that could potentially lead to privilege escalation. It didn’t take long until the first exploits appeared, in this blog post we’ll walk-through the vulnerability and Samuel’s Proof-of-concept exploit in detail. The Vulnerable … Read more