Re:Racing Cats to the Exit: A Boring Linux Kernel Use-After-...
by accessvector on Friday August 19, 2022 @01:01PM
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A pretty boring (non-exploitable) yet widespread use-after-free vulnerability that was recently patched and affected Linux kernels since ~2013. It involves a race condition between the exit path for a process and /proc/<pid>/timers.
In this post, I explain the race and walk through exploitability analysis.
In this post, I explain the race and walk through exploitability analysis.