Microsoft Silently Fixes Kernel Bug That Led to Chrome Sandbox Bypass

Microsoft appears to have silently fixed a two-year-old bug in in Windows Kernel Object Manager that could have allowed for the bypass of privileges in Google’s Chrome browser. James Forshaw, a researcher with Google’s Project Zero first reported the issue in December 2014. Microsoft responded to...

REVERSING MRXSMB.SYS CHAPTER II “NtClose DeadLock”

REVERSING MRXSMB.SYS CHAPTER II “NtClose DeadLock” Rubn Santamarta [email protected] www.reversemode.com May 15, 2006 Abstract Kernel Object Manager is prone to a deadlock situation which could be exploitable making unkillable any process running, complicating its elimination. INDEX...