kernel

Who asked for this file? Previous mode confusion in Windows kernel drivers

Windows stores one previous-access-mode value per thread and uses it to answer two unrelated questions, and the workaround for that leaks straight into driver code.

found by James Forshaw, Google Project Zero

Exploiting a use-after-free race in the Linux kernel's vivid driver

There is a Linux driver whose entire job is to pretend. `vivid` emulates video4linux hardware (capture devices, output devices, radio receivers and transmitters, a software-defined radio). You can…

found by Alexander Popov, Positive Technologies