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2014: "Android Hacker's Handbook" by Joshua J. Drake [book]
2012: "A Guide to Kernel Exploitation: Attacking the Core" by Enrico Perla and Massimiliano Oldani [book] [materials]
2022: "USMA: Share Kernel Code With Me" by Yong Liu, Jun Yao, and Xiaodong Wang [slides] [paper] [article]
2022: "Linux kernel heap feng shui in 2022" by Michael S and Vitaly Nikolenko [article]
2022: "LiKE: A Series on Linux Kernel Exploitation" by sam4k [article] [modprobe_path]
2022: "Racing against the clock -- hitting a tiny kernel race window" by Jann Horn [article]
2022: "Playing for K(H)eaps: Understanding and Improving Linux Kernel Exploit Reliability" [paper]
2022: "Learning Linux kernel exploitation" by 0x434b [article] [part 2]
2021: "ExpRace: Exploiting Kernel Races through Raising Interrupts" at USENIX [paper] [slides] [video]
2021: "Utilizing msg_msg Objects for Arbitrary Read and Arbitrary Write in the Linux Kernel" [article] [part2]
2021: "Linux Kernel Exploitation Technique: Overwriting modprobe_path" [article]
2021: "Learning Linux Kernel Exploitation" [article] [part 2] [part 3]
2020: "Exploiting Kernel Races Through Taming Thread Interleaving" [slides] [video]
2020: "Locating the kernel PGD on Android/aarch64" by Vitaly Nikolenko [article]
2020: "A Systematic Study of Elastic Objects in Kernel Exploitation" [paper] [video]
2020: "Exploiting Uses of Uninitialized Stack Variables in Linux Kernels to Leak Kernel Pointers" [slides] [paper] [video]
2020: "BlindSide: Speculative Probing: Hacking Blind in the Spectre Era" [paper]
2020: "Linux Kernel Stack Smashing" by Silvio Cesare [article]
2020: "Structures that can be used in kernel exploits" [article]
2019: "Hands Off and Putting SLAB/SLUB Feng Shui in Blackbox" by Yueqi (Lewis) Chen at Black Hat Europe [slides] [code]
2019: "SLAKE: Facilitating Slab Manipulation for Exploiting Vulnerabilities in the Linux Kernel" by Yueqi (Lewis) Chen and Xinyu Xing [slides] [paper]
2019: "Exploiting Race Conditions Using the Scheduler" by Jann Horn at Linux Security Summit EU [slides] [video]
2019: "Kepler: Facilitating Control-flow Hijacking Primitive Evaluation for Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities" [slides] [video] [paper]
2019: "Leak kernel pointer by exploiting uninitialized uses in Linux kernel" by Jinbum Park [slides]
2018: "FUZE: Towards Facilitating Exploit Generation for Kernel Use-After-Free Vulnerabilities" [slides] [paper]
2018: "Linux Kernel universal heap spray" by Vitaly Nikolenko [article]
2018: "Linux-Kernel-Exploit Stack Smashing" [article]
2018: "Entering God Mode - The Kernel Space Mirroring Attack" [article]
2018: "Mirror Mirror: Rooting Android 8 with a Kernel Space Mirroring Attack" by Wang Yong at HitB [slides]
2018: "linux kernel pwn notes" [article]
2018: "Use of timer_list structure in linux kernel exploit" [article]
2017: "Escalating Privileges in Linux using Fault Injection" by Niek Timmers and Cristofaro Mune [slides] [video] [paper]
2017: "Kernel Driver mmap Handler Exploitation" by Mateusz Fruba [paper]
2017: "Linux kernel addr_limit bug / exploitation" by Vitaly Nikolenko [video]
2017: "The Stack Clash" by Qualys Research Team [article]
2017: "New Reliable Android Kernel Root Exploitation Techniques" [slides]
2017: "Breaking KASLR with perf" by Lizzie Dixon [article]
2017: "Linux kernel exploit cheetsheet" [article]
2016: "Linux Kernel ROP - Ropping your way to # (Part 1)" by Vitaly Nikolenko [article] [exercise]
2016: "Linux Kernel ROP - Ropping your way to # (Part 2)" by Vitaly Nikolenko [article]
2016: "Exploiting COF Vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel" by Vitaly Nikolenko at Ruxcon [slides]
2016: "Using userfaultfd" by Lizzie Dixon [article]
2016: "Direct Memory Attack the Kernel" by Ulf Frisk at DEF CON [video]
2016: "Randomization Can't Stop BPF JIT Spray" by Elena Reshetova at Black Hat [slides] [video] [paper]
2015: "Kernel Data Attack is a Realistic Security Threat" [paper]
2015: "From Collision To Exploitation: Unleashing Use-After-Free Vulnerabilities in Linux Kernel" [paper]
2015: "Modern Binary Exploitation: Linux Kernel Exploitation" by Patrick Biernat [slides] [exercise]
2013: "Hacking like in the Movies: Visualizing Page Tables for Local Exploitation" at Black Hat
2013: "Exploiting linux kernel heap corruptions" by Mohamed Channam [article]
2012: "Writing kernel exploits" by Keegan McAllister [slides]
2012: "Understanding Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities" by Richard Carback [slides]
2012: "A Heap of Trouble: Breaking the Linux Kernel SLOB Allocator" by Dan Rosenberg [paper]
2012: "Attacking hardened Linux systems with kernel JIT spraying" by Keegan McAllister [article] [code 1] [code 2]
2012: "The Linux kernel memory allocators from an exploitation perspective" by Patroklos Argyroudis [article]
2012: "The Stack is Back" by Jon Oberheide [slides]
2012: "Stackjacking" by Jon Oberheide and Dan Rosenberg [slides]
2011: "Stackjacking Your Way to grsec/PaX Bypass" by Jon Oberheide [article]
2010: "Much ado about NULL: Exploiting a kernel NULL dereference" [article]
2010: "Exploiting Stack Overflows in the Linux Kernel" by Jon Oberheide [article]
2007: "Kernel-mode exploits primer" by Sylvester Keil and Clemens Kolbitsch [paper]
2007: "Attacking the Core : Kernel Exploiting Notes" [article]
2007: "The story of exploiting kmalloc() overflows" [article]
2007: "Linux 2.6 Kernel Exploits" by Stephane Duverger [slides]
2005: "Large memory management vulnerabilities" by Gael Delalleau at CancSecWest [slides]
2005: "The story of exploiting kmalloc() overflows" [article]
2022: "Tetragone: A Lesson in Security Fundamentals" by Pawel Wieczorkiewicz and Brad Spengler [article]
2021: "A General Approach to Bypassing Many Kernel Protections and its Mitigation" by Yueqi Chen [slides] [video]
2021: "Attacking Samsung RKP" by Alexandre Adamski [article]
2020: "Things not to do when using an IOMMU" by Ilja van Sprundel and Joseph Tartaro [video]
2020: "SELinux RKP misconfiguration on Samsung S20 devices" by Vitaly Nikolenko [article]
2020: "TagBleed: Breaking KASLR on the Isolated Kernel Address Space using Tagged TLBs" [paper]
2020: "Weaknesses in Linux Kernel Heap Hardening" by Silvio Cesare [article]
2020: "An Analysis of Linux Kernel Heap Hardening" by Silvio Cesare [article]
2020: "PAN: Another day, another broken mitigation" by Siguza [article]
2019: "KNOX Kernel Mitigation Bypasses" by Dong-Hoon You at PoC [slides]
2017: "Lifting the (Hyper) Visor: Bypassing Samsung’s Real-Time Kernel Protection" by Gal Beniamini [article]
2016: "Linux Kernel x86-64 bypass SMEP - KASLR - kptr_restric" [article]
2016: "Practical SMEP bypass techniques on Linux" by Vitaly Nikolenko at KIWICON [slides]
2016: "Micro architecture attacks on KASLR" by Anders Fogh" [article]
2016: "Breaking KASLR with Intel TSX" Yeongjin Jang, Sangho Lee and Taesoo Kim at Black Hat [slides] [video]
2016: "Breaking KASLR with micro architecture" by Anders Fogh [article]
2015: "Effectively bypassing kptr_restrict on Android" by Gal Beniamini [article]
2014: "ret2dir: Deconstructing Kernel Isolation" by Vasileios P. Kemerlis, Michalis Polychronakis and Angelos D. Keromytis at Black Hat Europe [paper] [video]
2013: "A Linux Memory Trick" by Dan Rosenberg [article]
2011: "SMEP: What is It, and How to Beat It on Linux" by Dan Rosenberg [article]
2009: "Bypassing Linux' NULL pointer dereference exploit prevention (mmap_min_addr)" [article]
Assorted advisories by Gyorgy Miru and kutyacica
2022: "Yet another bug into Netfilter" by Arthur Mongodin [article] [CVE-2022-1972]
2022: "The AMD Branch (Mis)predictor: Just Set it and Forget it!" by Pawel Wieczorkiewicz [article] [Spectre]
2022: "The AMD Branch (Mis)predictor Part 2: Where No CPU has Gone Before (CVE-2021-26341)" by Pawel Wieczorkiewicz [article] [Spectre]
2021: "Samsung S10+/S9 kernel 4.14 (Android 10) Kernel Function Address (.text) and Heap Address Information Leak" [article] [CVE-TBD]
2021: "Linux Kernel /proc/pid/syscall information disclosure vulnerability" [article] [CVE-2020-28588]
2021: "Spectre exploits in the "wild"" [article]
2021: "VDSO As A Potential KASLR Oracle" by Philip Pettersson and Alex Radocea [article]
2020: "PLATYPUS: Software-based Power Side-Channel Attacks on x86" [paper]
2019: "CVE-2018-3639 / CVE-2019-7308 - Analysis of Spectre Attacking Linux Kernel ebpf" [article] [CVE-2018-3639, CVE-2019-7308]
2019: "From IP ID to Device ID and KASLR Bypass (Extended Version)" [paper]
2018: "Kernel Memory disclosure & CANVAS Part 1 - Spectre: tips & tricks" [article] [Spectre]
2018: "Kernel Memory disclosure & CANVAS Part 2 - CVE-2017-18344 analysis & exploitation notes" [article] [CVE-2017-18344]
2018: "CVE-2017-18344: Exploiting an arbitrary-read vulnerability in the Linux kernel timer subsystem" by Andrey Konovalov [article] [CVE-2017-18344]
2017: "Linux kernel 2.6.0 to 4.12-rc4 infoleak due to a data race in ALSA timer" by Alexander Potapenko [announcement] [CVE-2017-1000380]
2017: "The Infoleak that (Mostly) Wasn't" by Brad Spengler [article] [CVE-2017-7616]
2016: "Exploiting a Linux Kernel Infoleak to bypass Linux kASLR" [article]
2010: "Linux Kernel pktcdvd Memory Disclosure" by Jon Oberheide [article] [CVE-2010-3437]
2009: "Linux Kernel x86-64 Register Leak" by Jon Oberheide [article] [CVE-2009-2910]
2009: "Linux Kernel getname() Stack Memory Disclosures" by Jon Oberheide [article] [CVE-2009-3001]
2022: "The Android kernel mitigations obstacle race" by Man Yue Mo [article] [CVE-2022-22057]
2022: "io_uring - new code, new bugs, and a new exploit technique" by Lam Jun Rong [article] [CVE-2021-41073]
2022: "Exploration of the Dirty Pipe Vulnerability (CVE-2022-0847)" by lolcads [article] [CVE-2022-0847]
2022: "DirtyPipe-Android/TECHNICAL-DETAILS.md" by polygraphene [article] [CVE-2022-0847]
2022: "Weaponizing dirtypipe on android" by Giovanni Rocca [slides] [exploit] [CVE-2022-0847]
2022: "How The Tables Have Turned: An analysis of two new Linux vulnerabilities in nf_tables" by David Bouman [CVE-2022-1015] [CVE-2022-1016]
2022: "The Discovery and Exploitation of CVE-2022-25636" by Nick Gregory [article] [CVE-2022-25636]
2022: "CVE-2022-27666: Exploit esp6 modules in Linux kernel" by ETenal [article] [CVE-2022-27666]
2022: "Put an io_uring on it: Exploiting the Linux Kernel" by Valentina Palmiotti [article] [CVE-2021-41073]
2022: "The Dirty Pipe Vulnerability" by Max Kellermann [article] [CVE-2022-0847]
2022: "CVE-2022-0185 - Winning a $31337 Bounty after Pwning Ubuntu and Escaping Google's KCTF Containers" [article] [CVE-2022-0185]
2022: "CVE-2022-0185: Linux kernel slab out-of-bounds write: exploit and writeup" by Alejandro Guerrero [article] [CVE-2022-0185]
2022: "CVE-2022-0185: A Case Study" [article] [CVE-2022-0185]
2022: "Linux kernel Use-After-Free (CVE-2021-23134) PoC" [article] [CVE-2021-23134]
2022: "Exploiting CVE-2021-26708 (Linux kernel) with ssh" [article] [CVE-2021-26708]
2022: "exploiting CVE-2019-2215" by cutesmilee [article] [CVE-2019-2215]
2021: "Your Trash Kernel Bug, My Precious 0-day" by Zhenpeng Lin [slides] [CVE-2021-3715]
2021: "[CVE-2021-42008] Exploiting A 16-Year-Old Vulnerability In The Linux 6pack Driver" [article] [CVE-2021-42008]
2021: "PWN2OWN Local Escalation of Privilege Category, Ubuntu Desktop Exploit" [article] [CVE-TBD]
2021: "Reversing and Exploiting Samsung's NPU" by Maxime Peterlin [article] [part 2] slides
2021: "Fall of the machines: Exploiting the Qualcomm NPU (neural processing unit) kernel driver" by Man Yue Mo [article] [CVE-2021-1940, CVE-2021-1968, CVE-2021-1969]
2021: "Exploiting CVE-2021-43267" by Blasty [article] [CVE-2021-43267]
2021: "How a simple Linux kernel memory corruption bug can lead to complete system compromise" by Jann Horn [article] [CVE-TBD]
2021: "SuDump: Exploiting suid binaries through the kernel" by Itai Greenhut [article] [CVE-TBD]
2021: "CVE-2021-34866 Writeup" by HexRabbit [article] [CVE-2021-34866]
2021: "Kernel Pwning with eBPF: a Love Story" by Valentina Palmiotti [article] [CVE-2021-3490]
2021: "The Art of Exploiting UAF by Ret2bpf in Android Kernel" by Xingyu Jin and Richard Neal [article] [slides] [video] [CVE-2021-0399]
2021: "Internal of the Android kernel backdoor vulnerability" [article] [CVE-2021-28663]
2021: "Escape from chrome sandbox to root" [article] [CVE-2020-0423]
2021: "CVE-2017-11176" by Maher Azzouzi [article] [CVE-2017-11176]
2021: "Sequoia: A deep root in Linux's filesystem layer (CVE-2021-33909)" by Qualys Research Team [article] [CVE-2021-33909]
2021: "CVE-2021-22555: Turning \x00\x00 into 10000$" by Andy Nguyen [CVE-2021-22555, article]
2021: "Exploitation of a double free vulnerability in Ubuntu shiftfs driver (CVE-2021-3492)" by Vincent Dehors [article] [CVE-2021-3492]
2021: "CVE-2021-20226 a reference counting bug which leads to local privilege escalation in io_uring" [article] [CVE-2021–20226]
2021: "CVE-2021-32606: CAN ISOTP local privilege escalation" [article] [CVE-2021-32606]
2021: "CVE-2021-3609: CAN BCM local privilege escalation" [article] [announcement] [CVE-2021-3609]
2021: "Blue Klotski (CVE-2021-3573) and the story for fixing" by f0rm2l1n [article] [announcement] [CVE-2021-3573]
2021: "ZDI-20-1440: An Incorrect Calculation Bug in the Linux Kernel eBPF Verifier" by Lucas Leong [article]
2021: "ZDI-20-1440 Writeup" by HexRabbit [article]
2021: "SSD Advisory – OverlayFS PE" [article] [CVE-2021-3493]
2021: "[BugTales] A Nerve-Racking Bug Collision in Samsung's NPU Driver" by Gyorgy Miru [article] [CVE-2020-28343, SVE-2020-18610]
2021: "CVE-2021-20226: A Reference-Counting Bug in the Linux Kernel io_uring Subsystem" by Lucas Leong [article] [CVE-2021-20226]
2021: "One day short of a full chain: Part 1 - Android Kernel arbitrary code execution" by Man Yue Mo [article] [GHSL-2020-375]
2021: "New Old Bugs in the Linux Kernel" [article] [CVE-2021-27365, CVE-2021-27363, CVE-2021-27364]
2021: "Four Bytes of Power: exploiting CVE-2021-26708 in the Linux kernel" [article] [slides] [video] [CVE-2021-26708]
2021: "Improving the exploit for CVE-2021-26708 in the Linux kernel to bypass LKRG" by Alexander Popov [article] [slides] [video]
2021: "Gaining root access in Linux using the CVE-2021-26708 vulnerability" by Markel Azpeitia Loiti [paper]
2021: "CVE-2014-3153" by Maher Azzouzi [article] [CVE-2014-3153]
2021: "The curious case of CVE-2020-14381" [article] [CVE-2020-14381]
2021: "Galaxy's Meltdown - Exploiting SVE-2020-18610" [article] [CVE-2020-28343, SVE-2020-18610]
2021: "In-the-Wild Series: Android Exploits" by Mark Brand [article]
2021: "Exploiting CVE-2014-3153 (Towelroot)" by Elon Gliksberg [article] [CVE-2014-3153]
2021: "CVE-2014-3153" by Maher Azzouzi [article] [CVE-2014-3153]
2020: "An iOS hacker tries Android" by Brandon Azad [article] [CVE-2020-28343, SVE-2020-18610]
2020: "Exploiting a Single Instruction Race Condition in Binder" [article] [CVE-2020-0423]
2020: "Three Dark clouds over the Android kernel" by Jun Yao [slides] [CVE-2020-3680]
2020: "Kernel Exploitation With A File System Fuzzer" [slides] [video] [CVE-2019-19377]
2020: "Finding and exploiting a bug (LPE) in an old Android phone" by Brandon Falk [stream] [part 2] [summary]
2020: "CVE-2020-14386: Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in the Linux kernel" by Or Cohen [article] [CVE-2020-14386]
2020: "Attacking the Qualcomm Adreno GPU" by Ben Hawkes [article] [CVE-2020-11179]
2020: "TiYunZong: An Exploit Chain to Remotely Root Modern Android Devices" by Guang Gong at Black Hat [slides] [paper] [CVE-2019-10567]
2020: "Binder - Analysis and exploitation of CVE-2020-0041" by Jean-Baptiste Cayrou [article] [CVE-2020-0041]
2020: "Binder IPC and its vulnerabilities" by Jean-Baptiste Cayrou at THCON [slides] [CVE-2019-2215, CVE-2019-2025, CVE-2019-2181, CVE-2019-2214, CVE-2020-0041]
2020: "Exploiting CVE-2020-0041 - Part 2: Escalating to root" by Eloi Sanfelix and Jordan Gruskovnjak [article] [CVE-2020-0041]
2020: "A bug collision tale" by Eloi Sanfelix at OffensiveCon [slides] [video] [CVE-2019-2025]
2020: "CVE-2020-8835: Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation via Improper eBPF Program Verification" by Manfred Paul [article] [CVE-2020-8835]
2020: "Mitigations are attack surface, too" by Jann Horn [article]
2020: "CVE-2019-18683: Exploiting a Linux kernel vulnerability in the V4L2 subsystem" by Alexander Popov [article] [slides] [CVE-2019-18683]
2020: "Multiple Kernel Vulnerabilities Affecting All Qualcomm Devices" by Tamir Zahavi-Brunner [article] [CVE-2019-14040, CVE-2019-14041]
2019: "CVE-2017-16995 Analysis - eBPF Sign Extension LPE" by senyuuri [article] [CVE-2017-16995]
2019: "Kernel Research / mmap handler exploitation" by deshal3v[article] [CVE-2019-18675]
2019: "Bad Binder: Android In-The-Wild Exploit" by Maddie Stone [article] [CVE-2019-2215]
2019: "Analyzing Android's CVE-2019-2215 (/dev/binder UAF)" [article] [CVE-2019-2215]
2019: "Stream Cut: Android Kernel Exploitation with Binder Use-After-Free (CVE-2019-2215)" [video] [CVE-2019-2215]
2019: "CVE-2019-2215 - Android kernel binder vulnerability analysis" [article] [CVE-2019-2215]
2019: "Deep Analysis of Exploitable Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities" by Tong Lin and Luhai Chen at Linux Security Summit EU [video] [CVE-2017-16995, CVE-2017-10661]
2019: "Tailoring CVE-2019-2215 to Achieve Root" by Grant Hernandez [article] [CVE-2019-2215]
2019: "From Zero to Root: Building Universal Android Rooting with a Type Confusion Vulnerability" by Wang Yong [slides] [CVE-2018-9568, WrongZone]
2019: "KARMA takes a look at offense and defense: WrongZone from exploitation to repair" [article] [CVE-2018-9568, WrongZone]
2019: "Android Binder: The Bridge To Root" by Hongli Han and Mingjian Zhou [slides] [CVE-2019-2025]
2019: "The ‘Waterdrop’ in Android: A Binder Kernel Vulnerability" by Hongli Han [article] [CVE-2019-2025]
2019: "An Exercise in Practical Container Escapology" by Nick Freeman [article] [CVE-2017-1000112]
2019: "Taking a page from the kernel's book: A TLB issue in mremap()" by Jann Horn [article] [CVE-2018-18281]
2019: "CVE-2018-18281 - Analysis of TLB Vulnerabilities in Linux Kernel" [article]
2019: "Analysis of Linux xfrm Module Cross-Border Read-Write Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2017-7184)" [article] [CVE-2017-7184]
2019: "Analysis of Escalation Vulnerability Caused by Integer Extension of Linux ebpf Module (CVE-2017-16995)" [article] [CVE-2017-16995]
2019: "Linux kernel 4.20 BPF integer overflow vulnerability analysis" [article]
2019: "Attacking DRM subsystem to gain kernel privilege on Chromebooks" by Di Shen [slides] [video] [CVE-2019-16508]
2018: "Linux kernel 4.20 BPF integer overflow-heap overflow vulnerability and its exploitation" [article]
2018: "CVE-2017-11176: A step-by-step Linux Kernel exploitation [article] [CVE-2017-11176]
2018: "A cache invalidation bug in Linux memory management" by Jann Horn [article] [CVE-2018-17182]
2018: "Dissecting a 17-year-old kernel bug" by Vitaly Nikolenko at beVX [slides] [CVE-2018-6554, CVE-2018-6555]
2018: "SSD Advisory – IRDA Linux Driver UAF" [article] [CVE-2018-6554, CVE-2018-6555]
2018: "Integer overflow in Linux's create_elf_tables()" [announcement] [CVE-2018-14634]
2018: "MMap Vulnerabilities – Linux Kernel" [article] [CVE-2018-8781]
2018: "Ubuntu kernel eBPF 0day analysis" [article] [CVE-2017-16995]
2018: "eBPF and Analysis of the get-rekt-linux-hardened.c Exploit for CVE-2017-16995" [article] [CVE-2017-16695]
2017: "CVE-2017-1000112: Exploiting an out-of-bounds bug in the Linux kernel UFO packets" by Andrey Konovalov [article] [CVE-2017-1000112]
2017: "Linux Kernel Vulnerability Can Lead to Privilege Escalation: Analyzing CVE-2017-1000112" by Krishs Patil [article] [CVE-2017-1000112]
2017: "Adapting the POC for CVE-2017-1000112 to Other Kernels" [article] [CVE-2017-1000112]
2017: "The Art of Exploiting Unconventional Use-after-free Bugs in Android Kernel" by Di Shen [slides] [CVE-2017-0403, CVE-2016-6787] [video]
2017: "Exploiting CVE-2017-5123 with full protections. SMEP, SMAP, and the Chrome Sandbox!" by Chris Salls [article] [CVE-2017-5123]
2017: "Exploiting CVE-2017-5123" by Federico Bento [article] [CVE-2017-5123]
2017: "Escaping Docker container using waitid() – CVE-2017-5123" by Daniel Shapira [article] [CVE-2017-5123]
2017: "LKE v4.13.x - waitid() LPE" by HyeongChan Kim [article] [CVE-2017-5123]
2017: "Exploiting on CVE-2016-6787" [article] [CVE-2016-6787]
2017: "Race For Root: The Analysis Of The Linux Kernel Race Condition Exploit" by Alexander Popov [video] [CVE-2017-2636]
2017: "Race For Root: The Analysis Of The Linux Kernel Race Condition Exploit" by Alexander Popov [slides] [CVE-2017-2636]
2017: "CVE-2017-2636: exploit the race condition in the n_hdlc Linux kernel driver bypassing SMEP" by Alexander Popov [article] [CVE-2017-2636]
2017: "CVE-2017-2636: local privilege escalation flaw in n_hdlc" by Alexander Popov [announcement] [CVE-2017-2636]
2017: "Dirty COW and why lying is bad even if you are the Linux kernel" [article] [CVE-2016-5195]
2017: "NDAY-2017-0103: Arbitrary kernel write in sys_oabi_epoll_wait" by Zuk Avraham [article] [CVE-2016-3857]
2017: "NDAY-2017-0106: Elevation of Privilege in NVIDIA nvhost-vic driver" by Zuk Avraham [article] [CVE-2016-2434]
2017: "PWN2OWN 2017 Linux kernel privilege escalation analysis" [article] [CVE-2017-7184]
2017: "Exploiting the Linux kernel via packet sockets" by Andrey Konovalov [article] [CVE-2017-7308]
2017: "NDAY-2017-0105: Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in MSM Thermal Drive" by Zuk Avraham [article] [CVE-2016-2411]
2017: "NDAY-2017-0102: Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in NVIDIA Video Driver" by Zuk Avraham [article] [CVE-2016-2435]
2017: "CVE-2017-6074: Exploiting a double-free in the Linux kernel DCCP sockets" by Andrey Konovalov [article] [CVE-2017-6074]
2016: "CVE-2016-8655 Linux af_packet.c race condition (local root)" by Philip Pettersson [announcement] [CVE-2016-8655]
2016: "Rooting Every Android From Extension To Exploitation" by Di Shen and James Fang at Black Hat [slides] [article] [CVE-2015-0570, CVE-2016-0820, CVE-2016-2475, CVE-2016-8453]
2016: "Talk is Cheap, Show Me the Code" by James Fang, Di Shen and Wen Niu [slides] [CVE-2015-1805]
2016: "CVE-2016-3873: Arbitrary Kernel Write in Nexus 9" by Sagi Kedmi [article] [CVE-2016-3873]
2016: "Exploiting Recursion in the Linux Kernel" by Jann Horn [article] [CVE-2016-1583]
2016: "ANALYSIS AND EXPLOITATION OF A LINUX KERNEL VULNERABILITY (CVE-2016-0728)" By Perception Point Research Team [article] [CVE-2016-0728]
2016: "CVE20160728 Exploit Code Explained" by Shilong Zhao [article] [CVE-2016-0728]
2016: "CVE-2016-0728 vs Android" by Collin Mulliner [article] [CVE-2016-0728]
2016: "Notes about CVE-2016-7117" by Lizzie Dixon [article] [CVE-2016-7117]
2016: "CVE-2016-2384: exploiting a double-free in the usb-midi linux kernel driver" by Andrey Konovalov [article] [CVE-2016-2384]
2016: "CVE-2016-6187: Exploiting Linux kernel heap off-by-one" by Vitaly Nikolenko [article] [CVE-2016-6187]
2016: "CVE-2014-2851 group_info UAF Exploitation" by Vitaly Nikolenko [article] [CVE-2014-2851]
2016: "Perf: From Profiling To Kernel Exploiting" by Wish Wu at HITB Ams [slides] [video] [CVE-2016-0819]
2016: "QUADROOTER: NEW VULNERABILITIES AFFECTING OVER 900 MILLION ANDROID DEVICES" [article] [CVE-2016-2503, CVE-2106-2504, CVE-2016-2059, CVE-2016-5340]
2016: "STUMPING THE MOBILE CHIPSET: New 0days from down under" by Adam Donenfeld at DEF CON [slides] [CVE-2016-2503, CVE-2106-2504, CVE-2016-2059, CVE-2016-5340]
2015: "Android linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerability and exploit (CVE-2014-4322)" by Gal Beniamini [article] [CVE-2014-4322]
2015: "Exploiting "BadIRET" vulnerability" by Rafal Wojtczuk [article] [CVE-2014-9322]
2015: "Follow-up on Exploiting "BadIRET" vulnerability (CVE-2014-9322)" by Adam Zabrocki [article] [CVE-2014-9322]
2015: "Ah! Universal Android Rooting Is Back" by Wen Xu at Black Hat [slides] [video] [paper] [CVE-2015-3636]
2015: "When is something overflowing" by Keen Team [slides]
2015: "Exploiting the DRAM rowhammer bug to gain kernel privileges" by Mark Seaborn and Thomas Dullien [article] [Rowhammer]
2015: "CVE-2014-4943 - PPPoL2TP DoS Analysis" by Vitaly Nikolenko [article] [CVE-2014-4943]
2015: "CVE-2015-0568: Use-After-Free Vulnerability in the Camera Driver of Qualcomm MSM 7x30" [article] [CVE-2015-0568]
2014: "Exploiting CVE-2014-0196 a walk-through of the Linux pty race condition PoC" by Samuel Gross [article] [CVE-2014-0196]
2014: "CVE-2014-4014: Linux Kernel Local Privilege Escalation "exploitation"" by Vitaly Nikolenko [article] [CVE-2014-4014]
2014: "CVE-2014-4699: Linux Kernel ptrace/sysret vulnerability analysis" by Vitaly Nikolenko [article] [CVE-2014-4699]
2014: "How to exploit the x32 recvmmsg() kernel vulnerability CVE 2014-0038" by Samuel Gross [article] [CVE-2014-0038]
2014: "Exploiting the Futex Bug and uncovering Towelroot" [article] [CVE-2014-3153]
2014: "CVE-2014-3153 Exploit" by Joel Eriksson [article] [CVE-2014-3153]
2013: "Privilege Escalation Kernel Exploit" by Julius Plenz [article] [CVE-2013-1763]
2013: "A closer look at a recent privilege escalation bug in Linux (CVE-2013-2094)" by Joe Damato [article] [CVE-2013-2094]
2012: "Linux Local Privilege Escalation via SUID /proc/pid/mem Write" by Jason Donenfeld [article] [CVE-2012-0056]
2011: "Kernel Exploitation Via Uninitialized Stack" by Kees Cook at DEF CON [slides] [video] [CVE-2010-2963]
2010: "CVE-2010-2963 v4l compat exploit" by Kees Cook [article] [CVE-2010-2963]
2010: "Exploiting large memory management vulnerabilities in Xorg server running on Linux" by Rafal Wojtczuk [article] [CVE-2010-2240]
2010: "CVE-2007-4573: The Anatomy of a Kernel Exploit" by Nelson Elhage [article] [CVE-2007-4573]
2010: "Linux Kernel CAN SLUB Overflow" by Jon Oberheide [article] [CVE-2010-2959]
2010: "af_can linux kernel overflow" by Ben Hawkes [article] [CVE-2010-2959]
2010: "linux compat vulns (part 1)" by Ben Hawkes [article] [CVE-2010-3081]
2010: "linux compat vulns (part 2)" by Ben Hawkes [article] [CVE-2010-3301]
2010: "Some Notes on CVE-2010-3081 Exploitability" [article] [CVE-2010-3081]
2010: "Anatomy of an exploit: CVE-2010-3081" [article] [CVE-2010-3081]
2010: "CVE-2010-4258: Turning denial-of-service into privilege escalation" by Nelson Elhage [article] [CVE-2010-4258]
2009: "Linux NULL pointer dereference due to incorrect proto_ops initializations (CVE-2009-2692)" [article] [CVE-2009-2692]
2009: "Even when one byte matters" [article] [CVE-2009-1046]
2009: "CVE-2008-0009/CVE-2008-0010: Linux kernel vmsplice(2) Privilege Escalation" [article] [CVE-2008-0009, CVE-2008-0010]
2008: "vmsplice(): the making of a local root exploit" by Jonathan Corbet [article] [CVE-2008-0600]
2004: "Linux kernel do_mremap VMA limit local privilege escalation vulnerability" [article] [CVE-2004-0077]
2022: "Writing a Linux Kernel Remote in 2022" by Samuel Page [article] [CVE-2022-0435]
2022: "Zenith: Pwn2Own TP-Link AC1750 Smart Wi-Fi Router Remote Code Execution Vulnerability" by Axel Souchet [article] [CVE-2022-24354]
2021: "BleedingTooth: Linux Bluetooth Zero-Click Remote Code Execution" by Andy Nguyen: BadChoice, BadKarma, BadVibes [article] [CVE-2020-12352, CVE-2020-12351, CVE-2020-24490]
2017: "Over The Air: Exploiting Broadcom’s Wi-Fi Stack (Part 2)" by Gal Beniamini [article] [CVE-2017-0569]
2017: "BlueBorn: The dangers of Bluetooth implementations: Unveiling zero day vulnerabilities and security flaws in modern Bluetooth stacks" [paper] [CVE-2017-1000251]
2016: "CVE Publication: CVE 2016-8633" by Eyal Itkin [article] [CVE-2016-8633]
2011: "Owned Over Amateur Radio: Remote Kernel Exploitation in 2011" at DEF CON [slides] [video] [CVE-2011-1493]
2009: "When a "potential D.o.S." means a one-shot remote kernel exploit: the SCTP story" [article] [CVE-2009-0065]
2022: "CVE-2022-0435: A Remote Stack Overflow in The Linux" by Samuel Page [article] [CVE-2022-0435]
2022: "CVE-2021-45608 | NetUSB RCE Flaw in Millions of End User Routers" by Max Van Amernngen [article] [CVE-2021-45608]
2021: "CVE-2021-1048: refcount increment on mid-destruction file" by Jann Horn [article] [CVE-2021-1048]
2021: "Achieving Linux Kernel Code Execution Through a Malicious USB Device" by Martijn Bogaard and Dana Geist [slides] [CVE-2016-2384]
2021: "SLUB overflow CVE-2021-42327" [article] [CVE-2021-42327]
2021: "CVE-2021-44733: Fuzzing and exploitation of a use-after-free in the Linux kernel TEE subsystem" by pjlantz [article] [poc] [CVE-2021-44733]
2021: "CVE-2021-43267: Remote Linux Kernel Heap Overflow | TIPC Module Allows Arbitrary Code Execution" by Max Van Amerongen [article] [CVE-2021-43267]
2021: "An EPYC escape: Case-study of a KVM breakout" by Felix Wilhelm [article] [CVE-2021-29657]
2021: "CVE-2021-1905: Qualcomm Adreno GPU memory mapping use-after-free" by Ben Hawkes [article] [CVE-2021-1905]
2021: "A foray into Linux kernel exploitation on Android" by Ayaz Mammadov [article]
2020: "CVE-2020-16119" [article] [CVE-2020-16119]
2020: "The short story of 1 Linux Kernel Use-After-Free bug and 2 CVEs (CVE-2020-14356 and CVE-2020-25220)" by Adam Zabrocki [article] [CVE-2020-14356, CVE-2020-25220]
2020: "Curiosity around 'exec_id' and some problems associated with it" by Adam Zabrocki [article]
2020: "The never ending problems of local ASLR holes in Linux" [article] [CVE-2019-11190]
2019: "Reverse-engineering Broadcom wireless chipsets" by Hugues Anguelkov [article] [CVE-2019-9503, CVE-2019-9500]
2019: "CVE-2019-2000 - Android kernel binder vulnerability analysis" [article] [CVE-2019-2000]
2019: "Linux: virtual address 0 is mappable via privileged write() to /proc/*/mem" [article] [CVE-2019-9213]
2019: "CVE-2019-9213 - Analysis of Linux Kernel User Space 0 Virtual Address Mapping Vulnerability" [article] [CVE-2019-9213]
2018: "IOMMU-resistant DMA attacks" by Gil Kupfer [thesis]
2017: "initroot: Bypassing Nexus 6 Secure Boot through Kernel Command-line Injection" [article] [CVE-2017-1000363]
2016: "Motorola Android Bootloader Kernel Cmdline Injection Secure Boot Bypass" [article] [CVE-2016-10277]
2015: "Vulnerability in the Linux Crypto API that allows unprivileged users to load arbitrary kernel modules" by Mathias Krause [annnouncement]
2022: "GREBE: Unveiling Exploitation Potential for Linux Kernel Bugs" [paper]
2022: "An In-depth Analysis of Duplicated Linux Kernel Bug Reports" [paper]
2022: "Looking for Remote Code Execution bugs in the Linux kernel" by Andrey Konovalov [article]
2022: "Demystifying the Dependency Challenge in Kernel Fuzzing" [paper]
2022: "Progressive Scrutiny: Incremental Detection of UBI bugs in the Linux Kernel" [paper]
2022: "Syzkaller diving 01: Learn basic KCOV and how fuzzer adopts it" by f0rm2l1n [article]
2022: "Syzkaller diving 02: How syzkaller describe syscalls" by f0rm2l1n [article]
2022: "Syzkaller diving 03: What is the remote KCOV?" by f0rm2l1n [article]
2022: "Case Studies of Fuzzing with Xen" by Tamas K Lengyel at OffensiveCon [slides]
2021: "Rtkaller: State-aware Task Generation for RTOS Fuzzing" [paper]
2021: "BSOD: Binary-only Scalable fuzzing Of device Drivers" by Fabian Toepfer and Dominik Maier [paper]
2021: "An Analysis of Speculative Type Confusion Vulnerabilities in the Wild" at USENIX [paper] [slides] [video]
2021: "SyzVegas: Beating Kernel Fuzzing Odds with Reinforcement Learning" at USENIX [paper] [slides] [video]
2021: "Detecting Kernel Refcount Bugs with Two-Dimensional Consistency Checking" at USENIX [paper] [slides] [video]
2021: "Ruffling the penguin! How to fuzz the Linux kernel" by Andrey Konovalov and xakep.ru [article]
2021: "CoLaFUZE: Coverage-Guided and Layout-Aware Fuzzing for Android Drivers" [paper]
2021: "CVEHound: Audit Kernel Sources for Missing CVE Fixes" by Denis Efremov [slides] [video]
2021: "Finding Multiple Bug Effects for More Precise Exploitability Estimation" by Zhenpeng Lin and Yueqi Chen [slides] [video]
2021: "Triaging Kernel Out-Of-Bounds Write Vulnerabilities" by Weiteng Chen [slides] [video]
2021: "SyzScope: Revealing High-Risk Security Impacts of Fuzzer-Exposed Bugs" by Xiaochen Zou [paper] [slides] [video] [lwn article]
2021: "HEALER: Relation Learning Guided Kernel Fuzzing" [paper]
2021: "Detecting semantic bugs using differential fuzzing" by Mara Mihali [slides] [video]
2021: "Fuzzing Linux with Xen" by Tamas K Lengyel [slides] [video]
2021: "Variant analysis of the ‘Sequoia’ bug" by Jordy Zomer [article]
2021: "KMSAN, a look under the hood" by Alexander Potapenko [slides] [video]
2021: "Detecting Kernel Memory Leaks in Specialized Modules with Ownership Reasoning" [paper]
2021: "Understanding and Detecting Disordered Error Handling with Precise Function Pairing" [paper]
2021: "KFENCE - Detecting memory bugs in production kernels" [article]
2021: "Fuzzing the Linux Kernel" by Andrey Konovalov [slides] [video]
2021: "Dynamic program analysis for fun and profit" by Dmitry Vyukov [slides] [video]
2020: "Fuzzing a Pixel 3a Kernel with Syzkaller" by senyuuri [article]
2020: "Fuzzing the Berkeley Packet Filter" by Benjamin Curt Nilsen [thesis]
2020: "syzkaller: Adventures in Continuous Coverage-guided Kernel Fuzzing" by Dmitry Vyukov at BlueHat IL [video]
2020: "syzkaller / sanitizers: status update" by Dmitry Vyukov at Linux Plumbers [slides] [video]
2020: "Fuzzing for eBPF JIT bugs in the Linux kernel" by Simon Scannell [article]
2020: "Eliminating bugs in BPF JITs using automated formal verification" by Luke Nelson [video] [slides]
2020: "Fuzzing the Linux kernel (x86) entry code, Part 1 of 3" by Vegard Nossum [article]
2020: "Fuzzing the Linux kernel (x86) entry code, Part 2 of 3" by Vegard Nossum [article]
2020: "Fuzzing the Linux kernel (x86) entry code, Part 3 of 3" by Vegard Nossum [article]
2020: "Data-race detection in the Linux kernel" by Marco Elver at Linux Plumbers [slides] [video]
2020: "harbian-qa: State-based target directed fuzzer based on syzkaller" [article]
2020: "Agamotto: Accelerating Kernel Driver Fuzzing with Lightweight Virtual Machine Checkpoints" [paper] [slides] [video] [code]
2020: "Using syzkaller, part 1: Fuzzing the Linux kernel" by Andre Almeida [article]
2020: "Using syzkaller, part 2: Detecting programming bugs in the Linux kernel" by Andre Almeida [article]
2020: "Using syzkaller, part 3: Fuzzing your changes" by Andre Almeida [article]
2020: "Using syzkaller, part 4: Driver fuzzing" by Andre Almeida [article]
2020: "Effective Detection of Sleep-in-atomic-context Bugs in the Linux Kernel" [paper]
2020: "KRACE: Data Race Fuzzing for Kernel File Systems" [paper] [video]
2020: "HFL: Hybrid Fuzzing on the Linux Kernel" [paper]
2020: "KOOBE: Towards Facilitating Exploit Generation of Kernel Out-Of-Bounds Write Vulnerabilities" [paper]
2020: "Analyzing the Linux Kernel in Userland with AFL and KLEE" [article]
2020: "Precisely Characterizing Security Impact in a Flood of Patches via Symbolic Rule Comparison" [paper] [slides] [video]
2020: "Finding Race Conditions in Kernels: from Fuzzing to Symbolic Execution" by Meng Xu [thesis]
2020: "A Hybrid Interface Recovery Method for Android Kernels Fuzzing" [paper]
2019: "Industry Practice of Coverage-Guided Enterprise Linux Kernel Fuzzing" [paper]
2019: "Effective Static Analysis of Concurrency Use-After-Free Bugs in Linux Device Drivers" [paper]
2019: "A gentle introduction to Linux Kernel fuzzing" by Marek Majkowski [article]
2019: "Unicorefuzz: On the Viability of Emulation for Kernelspace Fuzzing" [paper]
2019: "Case study: Searching for a vulnerability pattern in the Linux kernel" by Alexander Popov [article]
2019: "Razzer: Finding Kernel Race Bugs through Fuzzing" [video] [paper]
2019: "Fuzzing File Systems via Two-Dimensional Input Space Exploration" [paper] [fuzzer]
2019: "PeriScope: An Effective Probing and Fuzzing Framework for the Hardware-OS Boundary" [paper]
2019: "Hourglass Fuzz: A Quick Bug Hunting Method" [slides]
2019: "Detecting Missing-Check Bugs via Semantic- and Context-Aware Criticalness and Constraints Inferences" [paper] [slides]
2019: "Automatically Identifying Security Checks for Detecting Kernel Semantic Bugs" [paper]
2018: "FastSyzkaller: Improving Fuzz Efficiency for Linux Kernel Fuzzing" [paper]
2018: "Writing the worlds worst Android fuzzer, and then improving it" by Brandon Falk [article]
2018: "From Thousands of Hours to a Couple of Minutes: Towards Automating Exploit Generation for Arbitrary Types of Kernel Vulnerabilities" [slides] [paper]
2018: "MoonShine: Optimizing OS Fuzzer Seed Selection with Trace Distillation" [paper] [code]
2018: "Detecting Kernel Memory Disclosure with x86 Emulation and Taint Tracking" by Mateusz Jurczyk [paper]
2018: "New Compat Vulnerabilities In Linux Device Drivers" at BlackHat [slides]
2018: "Precise and Scalable Detection of Double-Fetch Bugs in OS Kernels" [paper]
2018: "K-Miner: Uncovering Memory Corruption in Linux" [paper]
2017: "KernelMemorySanitizer (KMSAN)" by Alexander Potapenko [slides]
2017: "The android vulnerability discovery in SoC" by Yu Pan and Yang Dai [slides]
2017: "Evolutionary Kernel Fuzzing" by Richard Johnson at Black Hat USA [slides]
2017: "DIFUZE: Interface Aware Fuzzing for Kernel Drivers" [slides] [paper]
2017: "SemFuzz: Semantics-based Automatic Generation of Proof-of-Concept Exploits" at CCS [paper]
2017: "kAFL: Hardware-Assisted Feedback Fuzzing for OS Kernels" at USENIX [paper]
2017: "DR. CHECKER: A Soundy Analysis for Linux Kernel Drivers" at USENIX [paper]
2016: "UniSan: Proactive Kernel Memory Initialization to Eliminate Data Leakages" [paper]
2016: "An Analysis on the Impact and Detection of Kernel Stack Infoleaks" [paper]
2016: "Syzkaller, Future Developement" by Dmitry Vyukov at Linux Plumbers [slides]
2016: "Coverage-guided kernel fuzzing with syzkaller" [article]
2016: "Filesystem Fuzzing with American Fuzzy Lop" by Vegard Nossum and Quentin Casasnovas [slides]
2015: "Introduction to USB and Fuzzing" by Matt DuHarte at DEF CON [video]
2012: "Comprehensive Kernel Instrumentation via Dynamic Binary Translation" [paper]
2010: "Automatic Bug-finding Techniques for Linux Kernel" by Jiri Slaby [paper]
2009: "Opensource Kernel Auditing and Exploitation" by Silvio Cesare at DEF CON [video]
"Linux Kernel Defence Map" by Alexander Popov
2022: "Meaningful Bounds Checking in the Linux Kernel" by Kees Cook [slides]
2022: "Compilers: The Old New Security Frontier" by Brad Spengler [slides]
2022: "In-Kernel Control-Flow Integrity on Commodity OSes using ARM Pointer Authentication" [paper]
2022: "Preventing Kernel Hacks with HAKC" [paper]
2022: "Meaningful Bounds Checking in the Linux Kernel" by Kees Cook at Linux Conf AU [slides] [video]
2022: "Mitigating kernel risks on 32-bit ARM" by Ard Biesheuvel [article]
2022: "Kernel Hardening for 32-bit Arm Processors" by Keith Packard at Linux Conf AU [video]
2021: "In-Kernel Control-Flow Integrity on Commodity OSes using ARM Pointer Authentication" [paper]
2021: "Mitigating Linux kernel memory corruptions with Arm Memory Tagging" by Andrey Konovalov [slides] [video]
2021: "Midas: Systematic Kernel TOCTTOU Protection" at USENIX [paper]
2021: "Undo Workarounds for Kernel Bugs" at USENIX [paper] [slides] [video]
2021: "SHARD: Fine-Grained Kernel Specialization with Context-Aware Hardening" at USENIX [slides] [video]
2021: "Mitigation of Kernel Memory Corruption Using Multiple Kernel Memory Mechanism" [paper]
2021: "Hardware-Assisted Fine-Grained Control-Flow Integrity: Adding Lasers to Intel's CET/IBT" by Joao Moreira [slides] [video]
2021: "Kernel Self-Protection Project" by Kees Cook [slides] [video]
2021: "Compiler Features for Kernel Security" by Kees Cook [slides] [video]
2021: "A proof-carrying approach to building correct and flexible in-kernel verifiers" [slides] [video]
2021: "How AUTOSLAB Changes the Memory Unsafety Game" by Zhenpeng Lin [article]
2021: "security things in Linux vX.X" by Kees Cook [articles]
2021: "Undo Workarounds for Kernel Bugs" [paper]
2020: "Kernel Integrity Enforcement with HLAT In a Virtual Machine" by Chao Gao [slides] [video]
2020: "Linux kernel heap quarantine versus use-after-free exploits" by Alexander Popov [article]
2020: "State of Linux kernel security" by Dmitry Vyukov [slides] [video]
2020: "LKRG IN A NUTSHELL" by Adam Zabrocki at OSTconf [slides]
2020: "Following the Linux Kernel Defence Map" by Alexander Popov at Linux Plumbers [slides] [video]
2020: "Memory Tagging for the Kernel: Tag-Based KASAN" by Andrey Konovalov [slides] [video]
2020: "10 Years of Linux Security - A Report Card" by Bradley Spengler [slides] [video]
2020: "Control Flow Integrity in the Linux Kernel" by Kees Cook at linux.conf.au [slides] [video]
2020: "Identification of Kernel Memory Corruption Using Kernel Memory Secret Observation Mechanism" [paper]
2019: "Camouflage: Hardware-assisted CFI for the ARM Linux kernel" [paper]
2019: "A New Proposal for Protecting Kernel Data Memory" by Igor Stoppa at Linux Security Summit EU [video]
2019: "Control-Flow Integrity for the Linux kernel: A Security Evaluation" by Federico Manuel Bento [thesis]
2019: "Kernel Self-Protection Project" by Kees Cook [slides]
2019: "Touch but don’t look - Running the Kernel in Execute-only memory" by Rick Edgecombe [slides]
2019: "Breaking and Protecting Linux Kernel Stack" by Elena Reshetova [video]
2019: "Making C Less Dangerous in the Linux Kernel" by Kees Cook [slides]
2019: "Mitigation for the Kernel Space Mirroring Attack (内核镜像攻击的缓解措施)" [article]
2018: "The State of Kernel Self Protection" by Kees Cook [slides]
2018: "Android Kernel Control Flow Integrity Analysis (分析)" [article]
2018: "Overview and Recent Developments: Kernel Self-Protection Project" by Kees Cook [slides]
2018: "Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG) under the hood" by Adam Zabrocki at CONFidence [slides, video]
2018: "GuardION: Practical Mitigation of DMA-based Rowhammer Attacks on ARM" [paper]
2018: "kR^X: Comprehensive Kernel Protection Against Just-In-Time Code Reuse" at BlackHat [video]
2018: "KASR: A Reliable and Practical Approach to Attack Surface Reduction of Commodity OS Kernels" [paper]
2018: "The State of Kernel Self Protection" by Kees Cook at Linux Conf AU [slides]
2017: "kR^X: Comprehensive Kernel Protection against Just-In-Time Code Reuse" [paper]
2017: "How STACKLEAK improves Linux kernel security" by Alexander Popov at Linux Piter [slides]
2017: "Shadow-Box: The Practical and Omnipotent Sandbox" by Seunghun Han at HitB [slides]
2017: "Towards Linux Kernel Memory Safety" [paper]
2017: "Proposal of a Method to Prevent Privilege Escalation Attacks for Linux Kernel" [slides]
2017: "Linux Kernel Self Protection Project" by Kees Cook [slides]
2017: "PT-Rand: Practical Mitigation of Data-only Attacks against Page Tables" [paper]
2017: "KASLR is Dead: Long Live KASLR" [paper]
2016: "Thwarting unknown bugs: hardening features in the mainline Linux kernel" by Mark Rutland [slides]
2016: "Emerging Defense in Android Kernel" by James Fang [article]
2016: "Randomizing the Linux kernel heap freelists" by Thomas Garnier [article]
2015: "RAP: RIP ROP" [slides]
2015: "Protecting Commodity Operating Systems through Strong Kernel Isolation" by Vasileios Kemerlis [paper]
2014: "Kernel Self-Protection through Quantified Attack Surface Reduction" by Anil Kurmus [paper]
2013: "KASLR: An Exercise in Cargo Cult Security" by Brad Spengler [article]
2012: "How do I mitigate against NULL pointer dereference vulnerabilities?" by RedHat [article]
2011: "Linux kernel vulnerabilities: State-of-the-art defenses and open problems" [paper]
2009: "Linux Kernel Heap Tampering Detection" by Larry Highsmith [article]
https://github.com/bsauce/kernel-exploit-factory
https://www.exploit-db.com/search/?action=search&description=linux+kernel
https://github.com/offensive-security/exploit-database/tree/master/platforms/linux/local
http://vulnfactory.org/exploits/ [2010-2011]
https://github.com/dirtycow/dirtycow.github.io/wiki/PoCs
https://github.com/ScottyBauer/Android_Kernel_CVE_POCs
https://github.com/f47h3r/hackingteam_exploits
https://github.com/xairy/kernel-exploits
https://github.com/milabs/kernel-exploits/blob/master/CVE-2017-1000112/poc.c (CVE-2017-1000112 exploit with LKRG bypass)
https://github.com/Kabot/Unix-Privilege-Escalation-Exploits-Pack
https://github.com/SecWiki/linux-kernel-exploits
https://grsecurity.net/~spender/exploits/
https://github.com/jiayy/android_vuln_poc-exp
https://github.com/marsyy/littl_tools/tree/master/bluetooth
https://github.com/nongiach/CVE/tree/master/CVE-2017-5123
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Sep/268
https://github.com/hardenedlinux/offensive_poc
https://github.com/externalist/exploit_playground
https://github.com/ww9210/Linux_kernel_exploits [FUZE]
https://github.com/ww9210/kepler-cfhp [KEPLER]
https://github.com/yzimhao/godpock
https://github.com/packetforger/localroot
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~vpk/research/ret2dir/
https://github.com/w0lfzhang/kernel_exploit
https://github.com/jinb-park/linux-exploit
https://github.com/bcoles/kernel-exploits
https://github.com/jollheef/lpe
https://github.com/tangsilian/android-vuln
https://github.com/grant-h/qu1ckr00t
https://github.com/kangtastic/cve-2019-2215
https://github.com/QuestEscape/exploit
https://github.com/duasynt/xfrm_poc
https://github.com/snorez/exploits/
https://github.com/saelo/cve-2014-0038
https://github.com/bluefrostsecurity/CVE-2020-0041/
https://github.com/chompie1337/s8_2019_2215_poc/
https://github.com/c3r34lk1ll3r/CVE-2017-5123
https://haxx.in/blasty-vs-ebpf.c
https://github.com/scannells/exploits/tree/master/CVE-2020-27194
https://github.com/lntrx/CVE-2021-28663
https://haxx.in/files/dirtypipez.c
https://github.com/Arinerron/CVE-2022-0847-DirtyPipe-Exploit
https://github.com/polygraphene/DirtyPipe-Android
https://github.com/Bonfee/CVE-2022-25636
https://github.com/Bonfee/CVE-2022-0995
https://github.com/tr3ee/CVE-2022-23222
https://github.com/tr3ee/CVE-2021-4204
https://github.com/google/syzkaller
https://github.com/kernelslacker/trinity
http://web.eece.maine.edu/~vweaver/projects/perf_events/fuzzer/
https://github.com/nccgroup/TriforceLinuxSyscallFuzzer
https://github.com/oracle/kernel-fuzzing
https://github.com/rgbkrk/iknowthis
https://github.com/schumilo/vUSBf
https://github.com/ucsb-seclab/difuze
https://github.com/compsec-snu/razzer [race-condition]
https://github.com/fgsect/unicorefuzz
https://github.com/SunHao-0/healer
https://github.com/atrosinenko/kbdysch
https://github.com/intel/kernel-fuzzer-for-xen-project
https://github.com/IntelLabs/kAFL/
https://github.com/snorez/ebpf-fuzzer
https://github.com/SmoothHacker/LateRegistration
https://github.com/sslab-gatech/janus
https://github.com/jonoberheide/ksymhunter
https://github.com/jonoberheide/kstructhunter
https://github.com/ngalongc/AutoLocalPrivilegeEscalation
https://github.com/PenturaLabs/Linux_Exploit_Suggester
https://github.com/jondonas/linux-exploit-suggester-2
https://github.com/mzet-/linux-exploit-suggester
https://github.com/spencerdodd/kernelpop
https://github.com/vnik5287/kaslr_tsx_bypass
https://github.com/IAIK/meltdown
https://github.com/nforest/droidimg
https://github.com/a13xp0p0v/kconfig-hardened-check
https://github.com/PaoloMonti42/salt
https://github.com/jollheef/out-of-tree
https://github.com/elfmaster/kdress
https://github.com/mephi42/ida-kallsyms/
Kernel Address Space Layout Derandomization (KASLD)
https://github.com/duasynt/gdb_scripts/
https://github.com/evdenis/cvehound
https://github.com/redplait/lkcd
https://github.com/Kyle-Kyle/pwning-toolset/blob/main/linux-kernel/fgkaslr_gadgets.py
https://github.com/vusec/kasper
https://github.com/martinradev/gdb-pt-dump
2021: "Linux kernel exploit development" [workshop]
2020: "pwn.college: Module: Kernel Security" [workshop]
2020: "Android Kernel Exploitation" by Ashfaq Ansari [workshop]
github.com/smallkirby/kernelpwn
github.com/MaherAzzouzi/LinuxKernelExploitation
github.com/AravGarg/kernel-hacking/ctf-challs
zer0pts CTF 2022 (kRCE): writeup
VULNCON CTF 2021 (IPS): writeup, writeup 2
N1 CTF 2021 (baby-guess): source, writeup
Balsn CTF 2021 (futex): source, writeup
TSG CTF 2021 (lkgit): writeup, writeup 2, writeup 3
Midnightsun Quals 2021 (BroHammer): writeup
0ctf2021 (kernote): source, exploit, and writeup, writeup 2
corCTF 2021 (fire-of-salvation): source, writeup
corCTF 2021 (wall-of-perdition): source, writeup
Google CTF 2021 (pwn-fullchain): source, writeup
Google CTF 2021 (pwn-ebpf): source, writeup
3kCTF 2021 (echo): source and exploit
3kCTF 2021 (klibrary): source, writeup
DEF CON CTF Qualifier 2021 (pza999): source and exploit
DiceCTF 2021 (HashBrown): writeup
hxp CTF 2020 (pfoten): source, writeup
CUCTF 2020 (Hotrod): writeup
SpamAndFlags 2020 (Secstore): writeup
BSidesTLV CTF 2020 (Kapara): writeup and exploit, video writeup
HITCON CTF 2020 (spark): source and exploit #1, writeup and exploit #2, exploit #3
HITCON CTF 2020 (atoms): source and exploit
N1 CTF 2020 (W2L): writeup
Seccon Online 2020 (Kstack): source, exploit, and writeup
TokyoWesterns CTF 2020 (EEBPF): source, writeup
r2con CTF 2020: source, exploit
ASIS CTF 2020 (Shared House): writeup
DEF CON CTF Qualifier 2020 (fungez): source, exploit and writeup
DEF CON CTF Qualifier 2020 (keml): source, exploit
zer0pts CTF 2020 (meow): writeup
De1CTF 2019 (Race): writeup and exploit
r2con CTF 2019: source, exploit, and writeup
HITCON CTF Quals 2019 (PoE): source and exploit
Balsn CTF 2019 (KrazyNote): exploit, writeup
TokyoWesterns CTF 2019 (gnote): writeup, video part 1, part 2
Security Fest 2019 (brainfuck64): writeup
Insomni'hack teaser 2019 (1118daysober): writeup 1, writeup 2
hxp CTF 2018 (Green Computing): writeup
WCTF 2018 (cpf): source, writeup, and exploit
SECT CTF 2018 (Gh0st): writeup
TWCTF 2018 (ReadableKernelModule): writeup
NCSTISC 2018 (babydriver): writeup, source and exploit
Sharif CTF 2018 (kdb): writeup, source and exploit
N1CTF 2018: writeup
Blaze2018 (blazeme): source and exploit 1, soure and exploit 2
QWB2018 (solid_core): writeup, exploit 1, exploit 2, exploit 3
0ctf2018: writeup 1, writeup 2
TCTF 2017 (cred_jar): writeup
0ctf2017: source and exploit 1, source and exploit 2
Insomni’hack finals 2015: writeup, source and exploit
CSAW CTF 2015: writeup 1, writeup 2, source and exploit
CSAW CTF 2014: source and exploit
CSAW CTF 2013: writeup, source and exploit
PlaidCTF 2013 (Servr): writeup, source
CSAW CTF 2011: writeup, source
rwth2011 CTF (ps3game): writeup
CSAW CTF 2010: writeup, source, source and exploit
pwnable.kr tasks (syscall, rootkit, softmmu, towelroot, kcrc, exynos)
https://github.com/ReverseLab/kernel-pwn-challenge
https://github.com/R3x/How2Kernel
https://github.com/Fuzion24/AndroidKernelExploitationPlayground
https://github.com/djrbliss/libplayground
https://github.com/a13xp0p0v/kernel-hack-drill
https://github.com/pr0cf5/kernel-exploit-practice
https://github.com/mncoppola/Linux-Kernel-CTF
2022: "Automated RE of Kernel Configurations" by zznop [article]
2021: "An Investigation of the Android Kernel Patch Ecosystem" at USENIX [paper] [slides] [video]
2021: "The Complicated History of a Simple Linux Kernel API" [article]
2020: "Checklist for when you get stuck with a Kernel Exploit" [article]
2020: "Android / Linux SLUB aliasing for general- and special-purpose caches" by Vitaly Nikolenko [video]
grsecurity CVE-Dataset [spreadsheet]
https://github.com/nccgroup/exploit_mitigations
https://github.com/bsauce/kernel-security-learning
https://forums.grsecurity.net/viewforum.php?f=7
https://grsecurity.net/research.php
https://github.com/jameshilliard/linux-grsec/
https://www.youtube.com/c/dayzerosec/videos
https://github.com/milabs/lkrg-bypass
https://github.com/V4bel/kernel-exploit-technique
https://github.com/mudongliang/reproduce_kernel_bugs
https://github.com/PaoloMonti42/salt