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Escaping the Google kCTF Container with a Data-Only Exploit

An article by h0mbre about exploiting a use-after-free on struct file in the io_uring subsystem.

The exploit uses a cross-cache attack to reclaim the freed struct file with a pipe buffer, fakes two different file structs to gain arbitrary address read and write, gets root privileges, and escapes the kernelCTF container.
The Human Machine Interface Escaping the Google kCTF Container with a Data-Only Exploit Introduction I’ve been doing some Linux kernel exploit development/study and vulnerability research off and on since last Fall and a few months ago I had some downtime on vacation to sit and challenge myself to write my first data-only exploit for a real…
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