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tptacek • yesterday at 10:50 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Wait, this is also presumably true, come to think of it. I'm a little fuzzy because they document the memory disclosure primitive carefully but not the memory writes they also got from it --- but whatever those are, they're hitting kernel memory? But the exploit they're describing here gets code execution out of Firecracker itself, not the kernel.


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monocasa • today at 12:12 AM

Yeah, they're not saying a lot there. And then the proof of concept code is just being passed the physical addresses of the pages they talk about as command line args, and is just opening /dev/mem to do brain surgery on them.

Which like, isn't really a proof of concept of anything being described.

"That was always allowed".