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ulisses

@foolisses

Mathematician gone InfoSec. Interested in the Linux kernel, vulnerability research & reverse engineering.

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Joined August 2018
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Just published a post on exploiting CVE-2024-0582, a vulnerability in the Linux kernel that remained unpatched in Ubuntu for over two months. Hope you enjoy it! blog.exodusintel.com/2024/03…
Mind the Patch Gap: Exploiting an io_uring Vulnerability in Ubuntu - Exodus Intelligence

Mind the Patch Gap: Exploiting an io_uring Vulnerability in Ubuntu - Exodus Intelligence

By Oriol Castejón Overview This post discusses a use-after-free vulnerability, CVE-2024-0582, in io_uring in the Linux kernel. Despite the vulnerability being patched in the stable kernel in December...

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c1bero@c1beroJun 8
If you want to see how one incorrectly placed exclamation mark in the Linux kernel's nftables subsystem can lead to a local privilege escalation, have a look at my blog post. It covers a technical analysis of the bug I found and how it can be exploited blog.exodusintel.com/2026/06…
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sam4k@sam4k1May 8
here's a technical write-up i wrote on one of the kernel bugs we've found :)
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@bynar_ioMay 8
In the first of a three-part series, @sam4k1 does a technical deep dive on CVE-2026-31532: a race condition in the Linux kernel's SocketCAN subsystem discovered, validated, and patched by our pipeline. bynar.io/blog/discovery-vali…
Discovery & Validation in the Linux Kernel (Part 1): CAN Use-After-Free Race - Blog | Bynario

Discovery & Validation in the Linux Kernel (Part 1): CAN Use-After-Free Race - Blog | Bynario

In the last month at Bynario, our LLM-driven pipeline has autonomously discovered, validated and patched two vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel:

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CFP is open for SAFACon Party! This is your chance to share your coolest research at an exclusive, invite-only conference. Sunshine, spanish vibes, food, drinks, party, heated VR debates are guaranteed. All your favorite VR folks will be there, so should you. Ping me for details
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🤌🔥 "Build a Fake Phone, Find Real Bugs Qualcomm GPU Emulation and Fuzzing with LibAFL QEMU" media.ccc.de/v/39c3-build-a-…
Build a Fake Phone, Find Real Bugs

Build a Fake Phone, Find Real Bugs

Mobile phones are central to everyday life: we communicate, entertain ourselves, and keep vast swaths of our digital lives on them. That ...

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It's official - #SAFACon 2026 will be held on the 8th of May in a secret location around Barcelona. Invites coming out from January, stay tuned for more info...
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Our team discovered CVE-2025-13032, an LPE in the Avast sandbox driver! Read the story of a SYSTEM token heist involving a break-in and escape from the antivirus sandbox. Full details: safateam.com/intelligence-hu… #CVE #LPE #Antivirus #KernelExploit #WindowsSecurity
CVE-2025-13032: Entering and Breaking the Avast Antivirus Sandbox Part 1

CVE-2025-13032: Entering and Breaking the Avast Antivirus Sandbox Part 1

Uncovering CVE-2025-13032: 4 kernel heap overflows in Avast Antivirus. Part 1 details the challenging sandbox manipulation of the $aswSnx$ kernel driver required to reach the vulnerability attack...

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Honey wake up, a new alternative to userfaultfd / FUSE for lengthening race windows just dropped!! github.com/google/security-r…
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First mention of x86 memory tagging (aka MTE) by both Intel and AMD (codename ChkTag): community.intel.com/t5/Blogs… amd.com/en/blogs/2025/amd-an… 🤘🤘🤘
Search - Intel.com

Search - Intel.com

Intel Search Results Page

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Say hello to Eternal Tux🐧, a 0-click RCE exploit against the Linux kernel from KSMBD N-Days (CVE-2023-52440 & CVE-2023-4130) willsroot.io/2025/09/ksmbd-0… Cheers to @u1f383 for finding these CVEs + the OffensiveCon talk from gteissier & @laomaiweng for inspiration!
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My new article: "Kernel-hack-drill and a new approach to exploiting CVE-2024-50264 in the Linux kernel"⚡️ I tell a bug collision story and introduce my pet project kernel-hack-drill, which helped me to exploit the hard bug that received @PwnieAwards 2025 a13xp0p0v.github.io/2025/09/…
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Documented instructions for setting up KGDB on Pixel 8. Including getting kernel log over UART via USB-Cereal, building/flashing custom kernel, breaking into KGDB via /proc/sysrq-trigger or by sending SysRq-G over serial, dealing with watchdogs, etc. xairy.io/articles/pixel-kgdb
📲 Debugging the Pixel 8 kernel via KGDB

📲 Debugging the Pixel 8 kernel via KGDB

Instructions for getting kernel log, building custom kernel, and enabling KGDB on Pixel 8

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sam4k@sam4k17 May 2025
with offensivecon around the corner, i figured id write another post on linux kernel exploitation techniques - this time i cover the world of page table exploitation! enjoy 🤓 sam4k.com/page-table-kernel-…
Kernel Exploitation Techniques: Turning The (Page) Tables

Kernel Exploitation Techniques: Turning The (Page) Tables

This post explores attacking page tables as a Linux kernel exploitation technique for gaining powerful read/write primitives.

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A great overview of the Linux Page Allocator 💯 syst3mfailure.io/linux-page-…
A Quick Dive Into The Linux Kernel Page Allocator

A Quick Dive Into The Linux Kernel Page Allocator

In recent years, with the rise of new kernel mitigations - from CFI to Google's SLUB virtual to randomized slab caches - there has been a trend shift from slab-level object exploitation to page-level...

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We are back😎 Say hello to our kernelCTF submission for CVE-2025-37752🩸 Who would have thought you could pwn a kernel with just a 0x0000 written 262636 bytes out of bounds? Read the full writeup at: syst3mfailure.io/two-bytes-o… 👀
[CVE-2025-37752] Two Bytes Of Madness: Pwning The Linux Kernel With A 0x0000 Written 262636 Bytes...

[CVE-2025-37752] Two Bytes Of Madness: Pwning The Linux Kernel With A 0x0000 Written 262636 Bytes...

CVE-2025-37752 is an Array-Out-Of-Bounds vulnerability in the Linux network packet scheduler, specifically in the SFQ queuing discipline. An invalid SFQ limit and a series of interactions between SFQ...

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sam4k@sam4k125 Apr 2025
ngl gang i might have got a bit lost in the sauce with this one, but if you're curious about how mmap() is implemented, check out part 2 of my memory management linternals series sam4k.com/linternals-explori…
Linternals: Exploring The mm Subsystem via mmap [0x02]

Linternals: Exploring The mm Subsystem via mmap [0x02]

In this part we'll use our case study to explore how the Linux kernel maps private anonymous memory.

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🚨 New Blog Post: Exploiting CVE-2024-0582 via the Dirty Page Table Method! Discover how dangling pages can corrupt Page Table Entries (PTEs) and redirect user-space memory to kernel-space. Read the full analysis: kuzey.rs/posts/Dirty_Page_Ta… #ExploitDevelopment #KernelSecurity

Exploiting CVE-2024-0582 via the Dirty Pagetable Method

Dirty Pagetable attack on io_uring UAF: PTE poisoning, physical address leaking, and privilege escalation without ROP chains.

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Slides of my talk at #Zer0Con2025! ⚡️ Kernel-Hack-Drill: Environment For Developing Linux Kernel Exploits ⚡️ I presented the kernel-hack-drill open-source project and showed how it helped me to exploit CVE-2024-50264 in the Linux kernel. Enjoy! a13xp0p0v.github.io/img/Alex…
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Just saw it mentioned on LWN, handy site for checking which distros enable a certain config option: oracle.github.io/kconfigs/?c…... Just replace UTS_RELEASE with whatever config option name minus CONFIG_, for example: oracle.github.io/kconfigs/?c…...
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CVE-2025-0927 details here! ssd-disclosure.com/ssd-advis…
SSD Advisory - Linux kernel hfsplus slab-out-of-bounds Write - SSD Secure Disclosure

SSD Advisory - Linux kernel hfsplus slab-out-of-bounds Write - SSD Secure Disclosure

Summary This advisory describes an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the Linux kernel that achieves local privilege escalation on Ubuntu 22.04 for active user sessions. Credit An independent...

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The Linux Memory Manager preorder and early access book nostarch.com/linux-memory-ma…
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