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After participating in Pwn2Own Austin in 2021 and failing to land my remote kernel exploit Zenith (which you can read about here), I was eager to try again. It is fun and forces me to look at things I would never have looked at otherwise. The one thing I …

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In 2021, I finally spent some time looking at a consumer router I had been using for years. It started as a weekend project to look at something a bit different from what I was used to. On top of that, it was also a good occasion to play …

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It is January 2020 and it is this time of the year where I try to set goals for myself. I had just come back from spending Christmas with my family in France and felt fairly recharged. It always is an exciting time for me to think and plan …

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Since the beginning of my journey in computer security I have always been amazed and fascinated by true remote vulnerabilities. By true remotes, I mean bugs that are triggerable remotely without any user interaction. Not even a single click. As a result I am always on the lookout for …

A journey into IonMonkey: root-causing CVE-2019-9810.

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In May, I wanted to play with BigInt and evaluate how I could use them for browser exploitation. The exploit I wrote for the blazefox relied on a Javascript library developed by @5aelo that allows code to manipulate 64-bit integers. Around the same …

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This blogpost covers the development of three exploits targeting SpiderMonkey JavaScript Shell interpreter and Mozilla Firefox on Windows 10 RS5 64-bit from the perspective of somebody that has never written a browser exploit nor looked closely at any JavaScript engine codebase.

As you have probably noticed, there has been …

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About a month ago, my mate b0n0n was working on the ledgerctf puzzles and challenged me to have a look at the ctf2 binary. I eventually did and this blogpost discusses the protection scheme and how I broke it. Before diving in though, here is a bit of background …

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About two weeks ago, my friend mongo challenged me to solve a reverse-engineering puzzle put up by the SSD team for OffensiveCon2018 (which is a security conference that took place in Berlin in February). The challenge binary is available for download here and here is one of the original …

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The main goal of today's post is to show a bit more of what is now possible with the latest Windbg (currently branded "WinDbg Preview" in the Microsoft store) and the time travel debugging tools that Microsoft released a few months ago. When these finally got released, a bit …

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Binary instrumentation and analysis have been subjects that I have always found fascinating. At compile time via clang, or at runtime with dynamic binary instrumentation frameworks like Pin or DynamoRIO. One thing I have always looked for though, is a framework able to statically instrument a PE image. A …