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Improving the exploit for CVE-2021-26708 in the Linux kernel to bypass LKRG

I improved my PoC exploit for CVE-2021-26708, added a full-power ROP chain, and implemented a new method of bypassing the Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG).

Article: https://a13xp0p0v.github.io/2021/08/25/lkrg-bypass.html

Slides for ZeroNights conference: https://a13xp0p0v.github.io/img/CVE-2021-26708_LKRG_bypass.pdf
Alexander Popov Improving the exploit for CVE-2021-26708 in the Linux kernel to bypass LKRG This is the follow-up to my research described in the article "Four Bytes of Power: Exploiting CVE-2021-26708 in the Linux kernel." My PoC exploit for CVE-2021-26708 had a very limited facility for privilege escalation, and I decided to continue my experiments…
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