My new article: "Kernel-hack-drill and a new approach to exploiting CVE-2024-50264 in the Linux kernel"⚡️
I tell a bug collision story and introduce my pet project kernel-hack-drill, which helped me to exploit the hard bug that received @PwnieAwards 2025
a13xp0p0v.github.io/2025/09/02/ker…
The embargo (12:00 UTC 2025-06-10) is over, let's start a thread on Hydroph0bia (CVE-2025-4275), a trivial SecureBoot and FW updater signature bypass in almost any Insyde H2O-based UEFI firmware used since 2012 and still in use today.
English writeup: coderush.me/hydroph0bia-pa…
Looks like this @Timesys Corporation did an amazing job [SARCASM] selling their Timesys Kernel Hardening Analysis Tool that simply provides the recommendations from my open source project kernel-hardening-checker.
They don't even mention kernel-hardening-checker. Shame on them👎
Slides of my talk at #Zer0Con2025!
⚡️ Kernel-Hack-Drill: Environment For Developing Linux Kernel Exploits ⚡️
I presented the kernel-hack-drill open-source project and showed how it helped me to exploit CVE-2024-50264 in the Linux kernel.
Enjoy!
a13xp0p0v.github.io/img/Alexander_…
@_markel___ found a new way to fully exploit patched Intel flaws (CVE-2017-5705, etc.), enabling stealthy spyware implants via supply chain attacks. Affected: Intel Pentium, Celeron, and Atom (Denverton, Apollo/Gemini Lake). Intel dismissed the issue: global.ptsecurity.com/about/news/pt-…
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