2012 Pwnie Award Winners

Best Client-Side Bug

Pinkie Pie’s Pwnium Exploit

Sergey Glazunov’s Pwnium Exploit

Best Privilege Escalation Bug

MS11-098: Windows Kernel Exception Handler Vulnerability (CVE-2011-2018)

Best Server-Side Bug

“Are we there yet?” MySQL Authentication Bypass (CVE-2012-2122)

Best Song

Control

Epic 0wnage

“Flame” Windows Update MD5 Collision Attack

Most Epic Fail

F5 Static Root SSH Key

Most Innovative Research

Packets in Packets: Orson Welles’ In-Band Signaling Attacks for Modern Radios