Exploiting a kernel NULL dereference

Marco Ramilli
Date
15 April 2010
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Hi Folks,
I am sorry for the long silence, but during this month I am very busy 🙁
Today I just wanna suggest this reading on Kernel Exploitation

We can demonstrate the first fact with the following program, which writes to the null_read file to force a kernel NULL dereference, but with the NULL page mapped, so that nothing goes wrong:

Writing to that file will trigger a NULL pointer dereference by the nullderef kernel module, but because it runs in the same address space as the user process, the read proceeds fine and nothing goes wrong – no kernel oops. We’ve passed the first step to a working exploit.

Marco Ramilli
Date
15 April 2010
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