The 2011 Pwnie Winner For Best Privilege Escalation Bug

Windows kernel win32k user-mode callback vulnerabilities (MS11-034)

Credit: Tarjei Mandt

In the span of a few months, Tarjei found more than 40 vulnerabilities in the Windows kernel. In his presentation at Infiltrate 2011, he described the details of these vulnerabilities and his kernel exploitation techniques.

(MS11-034)