Straight outta VMware (Microsoft BlueHat v18, Black Hat Europe 2018)
This post provides a short summary of my conference presentations at Microsoft's BlueHat v18 (Redmond, USA) and at Black Hat Europe 2018 (London, UK) on VMware workstation exploitation,
Black Hat Europe 2018
CENSUS is participating at this year's Black Hat Europe conference with a presentation by researcher Zisis Sialveras on VMWare guest-to-host exploitation entitled Straight Outta VMware: Modern Exploitation of the SVGA Device for Guest-to-Host Escapes.
Microsoft BlueHat v18
CENSUS participated in the Microsoft BlueHat v18 Security Conference with a presentation on a VMware guest-to-host escape methodology. The presentation was delivered by CENSUS researcher Zisis Sialveras and was entitled "Straight Outta VMware: Modern exploitation of the SVGA device for guest-to-host escapes".
FreeBSD kernel debugging
The FreeBSD kernel can be debugged with the ddb(4) interactive kernel debugger. Although the latest production release of FreeBSD (7.1 at the time of this writing) adds some very useful features, ddb is still lacking the flexibility of gdb.