Exploiting Race Conditions Using the Scheduler - Jann Horn, Google Nov. 13, 2019

from The Linux Foundation·

Exploiting Race Conditions Using the Scheduler - Jann Horn, Google Forum 1 Speakers: Jann Horn This talk shows how two bugs involving somewhat narrow- looking race windows (https://crbug.com/project-zero/1695 in the Linux kernel, https://crbug.com/project-zero/1741 in Android userspace code) can be stretched wide enough to win the race conditions on a Google Pixel 2 phone, running a Linux 4.4 kernel, by making use of the unprivileged sched_*() syscalls.



Exploiting Race Conditions Using the Scheduler - Jann Horn, Google Forum 1 Speakers: Jann Horn This talk shows how two bugs involving somewhat narrow- looking race windows (https://crbug.com/project-zero/1695 in the Linux kernel, https://crbug.com/project-zero/1741 in Android userspace code) can be stretched wide enough to win the race conditions on a Google Pixel 2 phone, running a Linux 4.4 kernel, by making use of the unprivileged sched_*() syscalls.