Apple macOS 10.12 - 'task_t' Local Privilege Escalation

Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=837 TL;DR you cannot hold or use a task struct pointer and expect the euid of that task to stay the same. Many many places in the kernel do this and there are a great many very exploitable bugs as a result. taskt is just a typedef...

Race you to the kernel!

Posted by Ian Beer of Google Project Zero The OS X and iOS kernel code responsible for loading a setuid root binary invalidates the old task port after first swapping the new virtual memory map pointer into the old task object, leaving a short race window where you can manipulate the memory of an...