February 18, 2005

Remote Windows Kernel Exploitation - Step Into the Ring 0

Barnaby Jack, a research analyst at EEye Digital Security, wrote a very interesting article about kernel exploitation techniques in his paper Remote Windows Kernel Exploitation.

As someone who works at ring 0 with the Windows kernel daily... this really isn't something new. If you read Exploiting Software: How to Break Code (my book review here) there were samples on how to write rootkits and even how to turn off the entire security model with a binary patch in Windows in just a few lines of code. Heck it's actually only a few bytes to turn off the entire thing. Greg Hogland has been working on rootkits for years and discussing this.

Anyways, although this is old news to me I think most of you will still find it interesting. You can read the paper here.

Happy reading!

Posted by SilverStr at February 18, 2005 11:34 AM | TrackBack