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Big Fish: Exploiting a 37-Year-Old Kernel Bug in OpenBSD(calif.io)

188 points by rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 10 days ago | 58 comments

A Calif research post by Andrew Griffiths describing how a 37-year-old OpenBSD kernel bug involving a small counter was exploited to gain a root shell.

Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit(blog.dfb.sh)

362 points by 0xdeafbeef 13 days ago | 180 comments

First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5(blog.calif.io)

438 points by quadrige 5 months ago | 122 comments

Calif blog post describing the first public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5 silicon that bypasses Memory Integrity Enforcement, built in five days.