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[CVE-2022-1786] A Journey To The Dawn

A thrilling article by kylebot about exploiting a race condition that leads to a double-free in the io_uring subsystem and winning a kCTF bounty.

The exploit uses novel techniques: overwriting binfmt structures instead of modprobe_path and using fork and msleep to safely return to userspace after executing a ROP chain.
kylebot's Blog [CVE-2022-1786] A Journey To The Dawn IntroductionBack in April, I found a 0-day vulnerability in the Linux kernel and exploited it on Google’s kCTF platform.I reported the bug to Linux kernel security team and helped them fix the vulnera
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