Getting to ring0 is the final step towards complete system compromise and can also be the most fun. In the course of one year, we have found around twenty kernel vulnerabilities, mostly in Windows and Linux, some of them being uncovered after ten or fifteen years of existence. We share some of this work and demonstrate some exploits, bugs and techniques.
Google Inc. Julien Tinnes has been interested in computer security since the late ’90s. He enjoys both designing and breaking the security aspects of complex systems. Before joining Google as an information security engineer, Julien was working for one of the biggest telecoms company as a security engineer and technical project manager. At that time, he was also a part-time teacher for various French “Grandes Ecoles.”