Re:Remote Kernel Code Execution Via HTTP Request In IIS On W...
by noselasd on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @09:48AM
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IIS has several components. One of them, the vulnerable part here, is running in kernel space. In kernel space you have access to everything.
As far as I know, IIS is the only(bar embedded devices running a single address space OS and various ancient/obsolete toys servers on linux) used in production that handles part of HTTP in kernel space (or ring 0 if you will).
As far as I know, IIS is the only(bar embedded devices running a single address space OS and various ancient/obsolete toys servers on linux) used in production that handles part of HTTP in kernel space (or ring 0 if you will).