The Windows Registry Adventure #1: Introduction and research results

Posted by Mateusz Jurczyk, Google Project Zero In the 20-month period between May 2022 and December 2023, I thoroughly audited the Windows Registry in search of local privilege escalation bugs. It all started unexpectedly: I was in the process of developing a coverage-based Windows kernel fuzzer...

CVE-2021-46757

Insufficient checking of memory buffer in ASP Secure OS may allow an attacker with a malicious TA to read/write to the ASP Secure OS kernel virtual address space potentially leading to privilege escalation...

RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2024:0412)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:0412 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: bpf: Incorrect verifier prunin...

PT-2023-9585 · Qualcomm · Qualcomm Snapdragon Auto

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Qualcomm Snapdragon Auto versions prior to WSA8835 Description: The issue is related to memory corruption that occurs when sending the persist buffer command packet from the user-space to the kernel space through the IOCTL call. This can...

Linux rootkits explained – Part 2: Loadable kernel modules

Part 2 dives into the world of LKMs Loadable Kernel Modules and kernel-space rootkits to explore what LKMs are, how attackers abuse them, and how to detect them...

function _nonSystemDeployOnAddress() should try another nonces when getNewAddressCreate() result is in kernel space otherwise some logics would be broken

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Function createAccount Deploys a contract account with similar address derivation rules to the EVM's CREATE opcode. the deployed contract address is calculated based on sender deployed nonce. code uses nonSystemDeployOnAddress to deploy the contract to n...

K25835344: Linux kernel vulnerability CVE-2018-8781

Security Advisory Description The udlfbmmap function in drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udlfb.c at the Linux kernel version 3.4 and up to and including 4.15 has an integer-overflow vulnerability allowing local users with access to the udldrmfb driver to obtain full read and write permissions on kernel physic...

K35135935: Side-channel processor vulnerability CVE-2018-9056 (BranchScope)

Security Advisory Description Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel attack on the directional branch predictor, as demonstrated by a pattern history table PHT, aka...

SUSE CVE-2009-1185

udev before 1.4.1 does not verify whether a NETLINK message originates from kernel space, which allows local users to gain privileges by sending a NETLINK message from user space...

CVE-2022-39011

The HISP module has a vulnerability of bypassing the check of the data transferred in the kernel space.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may cause unauthorized access to the HISP module...

CVE-2022-39011

The HISP module has a vulnerability of bypassing the check of the data transferred in the kernel space.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may cause unauthorized access to the HISP module...

CVE-2022-38998

The HISP module has a vulnerability of not verifying the data transferred in the kernel space.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will cause out-of-bounds read, which affects data confidentiality...

CVE-2022-38986

The HIPP module has a vulnerability of bypassing the check of the data transferred in the kernel space.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may cause out-of-bounds access to the HIPP module and page table tampering, affecting device confidentiality and availability...

CVE-2022-38998

The HISP module has a vulnerability of not verifying the data transferred in the kernel space.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will cause out-of-bounds read, which affects data confidentiality...

CVE-2022-38986

The HIPP module has a vulnerability of bypassing the check of the data transferred in the kernel space.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may cause out-of-bounds access to the HIPP module and page table tampering, affecting device confidentiality and availability...

CVE-2022-38984

The HIPP module has a vulnerability of not verifying the data transferred in the kernel space.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will cause out-of-bounds read, which affects data confidentiality...

CVE-2022-38984

The HIPP module has a vulnerability of not verifying the data transferred in the kernel space.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will cause out-of-bounds read, which affects data confidentiality...

Out-of-bounds

The HISP module has a vulnerability of not verifying the data transferred in the kernel space.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will cause out-of-bounds read, which affects data confidentiality...

Out-of-bounds

The HIPP module has a vulnerability of not verifying the data transferred in the kernel space.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will cause out-of-bounds read, which affects data confidentiality...

CVE-2022-39011

The HISP module has a vulnerability of bypassing the check of the data transferred in the kernel space.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may cause unauthorized access to the HISP module...