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Eh, permission escalation? It was basically a memcpy into kernel space. And thats just the first suitable syscall they found. They fuzz tested a bunch of them
by revelation 14y ago
Eh, permission escalation? It was basically a memcpy into kernel space.
And thats just the first suitable syscall they found. They fuzz tested a bunch of them and dozens produced crashes worth pursuing. Of 173 syscalls tested, 60 produced kernel panics.