Making Vulnerable Drivers Exploitable Without Hardware - The BYOVD Perspective

1 Introduction This article provides a technical analysis of how many Windows kernel mode drivers can be interacted with from user mode without the hardware they were developed for. This work was motivated by driver-oriented vulnerability research and the need to evaluate the exploitability of...

CVE-2026-31751

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's comedi dt2815 driver. A local user can exploit this vulnerability by attaching the driver to arbitrary I/O addresses without actual hardware present. This can trigger a page fault during output operations on non-existent hardware, leading to a kernel crash...