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Kernel Exploitation

Kernel Exploitation is a type of exploitation technique that specifically targets vulnerabilities within the operating system kernel to achieve privilege escalation by leveraging flaws in kernel programming to execute arbitrary code in kernel mode.

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185

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59

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2017–2026

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Practical Timing Side Channel Attacks against Kernel Space ASLR

Ralf Hund, Carsten Willems, Thorsten Holz · 2013 · 400 citations · Full text

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Enhanced operating system security through efficient and fine-grained address space randomization

Cristiano Giuffrida, Anton Kuijsten, Andrew S. Tanenbaum · 2012 · 207 citations

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kAFL: Hardware-Assisted Feedback Fuzzing for {OS} Kernels

Sergej Schumilo, Cornelius Aschermann, Robert Gawlik et al. · USENIX Security Symposium · 2017 · 175 citations

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Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Haogang Chen, Yandong Mao, Xi Wang et al. · 2011 · 156 citations · Full text

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DIFUZE

Jake Corina, Aravind Machiry, Christopher Salls et al. · 2017 · 154 citations

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Authors

185

  1. XX
    Xinyu Xing

    Pennsylvania State University, United States

    5 publications · 196 citations

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  2. AD
    Angelos D. Keromytis

    Columbia University, United States

    4 publications · 279 citations

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  3. YC
    Yueqi Chen

    Army Medical University, China

    4 publications · 166 citations

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  4. ZL
    Zhenpeng Lin

    Pennsylvania State University, United States

    3 publications · 102 citations

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  5. VP
    Vasileios P. Kemerlis

    Columbia University, United States

    3 publications · 245 citations

    3

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Institutions

59

  1. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    4 h-index

    10 publications

    769 citations

  2. Pennsylvania State University

    State College, United States

    4 h-index

    11 publications

    447 citations

  3. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    3 h-index

    9 publications

    915 citations

  4. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

    Daejeon, South Korea

    2 h-index

    8 publications

    114 citations

  5. University of Duisburg-Essen

    Essen, Germany

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    111 citations

  6. University of California, Santa Barbara

    Santa Barbara, United States

    2 h-index

    9 publications

    1.1K citations

  7. North Carolina State University

    Raleigh, United States

    2 h-index

    7 publications

    308 citations

  8. Technische Universität Darmstadt

    Darmstadt, Germany

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    277 citations

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Venues

  1. USENIX Security Symposium

    Conference · 3 publications · 233 citations

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  3. arXiv (Cornell University)

    Repository · 1 publications · 13 citations

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  4. Journal of computing sciences in colleges

    1 publications · 11 citations

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  5. 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)

    Conference · 1 publications · 36 citations

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