Cartography – Lighting up the shadows

In the previous post I demonstrated how to bypass Microsoft’s RFG, a.k.a. “Shadow Stack”, assuming we can locate the shadow stack. In this post I’ll fill up the missing details, and will describe how to find “Shadow” memory sections in a process’s virtual address space. While the technique works both in Windows and Linux, and it will demonstrate some key differences between the two operating systems.

(De)Fragmentation: Vulnerabilities Gold Mine

As was promised in the last posts, today we will discuss the development risks in the (de)fragmentation feature. From a security stand-point this is a Zero-Sum Game: a developer’s nightmare is a researcher’s goldmine, and defragmentation is a goldmine that seems to always payoff.