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Learn how kernel exploits expose operating system vulnerabilities and give the attacker complete control!

Table of Contents

Part I: A Journey to Kernel-Land
1. From User-Land to Kernel-Land Attacks
2. A Taxonomy of Kernel Vulnerabilities
3. Stairway to Successful Kernel Exploitation

Part II: The UNIX Family, Mac OS X, and Windows
4. The UNIX Family
5. Mac OS X
6. Windows

Part III: Remote Kernel Exploitation
7. Facing the Challenges of Remote Kernel Exploitation
8. Putting It All Together: A Linux Case Study

Part IV: Final Words
9. Kernel Evolution: Future Forms of Attack and Defense

About the Author

Enrico Perla currently works as a kernel programmer at Oracle. He received his B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Torino, and his M.Sc. in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin. His interests range from low-level system programming to low-level system attacking, exploiting, and exploit countermeasures. Massimiliano Oldani currently works as a Security Consultant at Emaze Networks. His main research topics include operating system security and kernel vulnerabilities.

Reviews

"A very interesting book that not only exposes readers to kernel exploitation techniques, but also deeply motivates the study of operating systems internals, moving such study far beyond simple curiosity."--Golden G. Richard III, Ph.D., Professor of Computer Science, University of New Orleans and CTO, Digital Forensics Solutions, LLC