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Ubuntu Shiftfs: Unbalanced Unlock Exploitation Attempt

Slides by Jean-Baptiste Cayrou about analyzing an inode locking issue in the shiftfs filesystem in Ubuntu.

The presenter focuses on how they turned the locking issue into a race condition, widened the race window, and caused a slab use-after-free. The researcher also outlines the further exploitation strategy for getting the root privileges.
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