#kernel
6pages tagged with "kernel"
infosec
- glaurung windows driver findings— a running catalog of windows kernel-driver bugs found with glaurung, the binary-analysis toolkit — what each bug is, how the tool surfaced it, and an honest read on why microsoft did or did not act on it.
- ioctlance: windows driver vulnerability detection— symbolic execution and taint analysis for finding vulnerabilities in windows kernel drivers
- KovaPlusFltr.sys: an unprivileged kernel stack overflow in the ROCCAT Kova[+] HID filter driver— glaurung surfaced an unbounded ioctl copy in a 2010 ROCCAT gaming-mouse filter driver: an attacker-controlled length copied into a fixed 3000-byte kernel stack buffer with no upper bound and no /GS cookie, overwriting the saved return address. unprivileged with a controlled kernel write, but reachable only when the Kova[+] mouse is present, which we reproduced in qemu by emulating the hardware the driver expects.
- ndfltr.sys: a 32-bit offset+length wrap into a kernel OOB read— glaurung found an integer-overflow-before-bounds-check in the windows NetworkDirect filter driver: a 32-bit (offset+length) validation that wraps while the use site applies the offset as a 64-bit addend, sending the source pointer ~4 GiB out of bounds. unprivileged on RDMA hosts, but a denial-of-service floor — and one of three candidate sites was a false positive we caught before disclosing.
- NDKPing.sys: a NULL SystemBuffer deref you can blue-screen on demand— glaurung flagged an ioctl dispatcher in the windows NDK diagnostic driver that loads Irp->AssociatedIrp.SystemBuffer and dereferences it without a null check. a METHOD_BUFFERED ioctl with zero-length input and output leaves SystemBuffer NULL, and every case body reads [NULL+0x28]. reproduced live as bugcheck 0x3B — but it is admin-only, which is exactly why microsoft will not fix it.
- the scrutiny gradient (2026-04-22 draft notes)— notes on the 2026-04-22 revision freeze of the mean-field survey of security commits, CVEs, and dossiers across 22 linux base-system repositories