I not too long ago got here throughout SerenityOS when it was featured in hxp CTF after which on LiveOverflow’s YouTube channel. SerenityOS is an open supply working system written from scratch by Andreas Kling and now has a robust and energetic group behind it. If you happen to’d wish to be taught a bit extra about it then the latest CppCast episode is an effective place to begin, in addition to all the unbelievable movies by Andreas Kling.

Two of the latest movies have been about writing exploits for a typed array bug in javascript, and a kernel bug in munmap. The movies have been nice to observe and acquired me pondering that it will be enjoyable to try to discover a few bugs that might be chained collectively to create a full chain exploit equivalent to exploiting a browser bug to take advantage of a kernel bug to get root entry.

You don’t get articles like this fairly often – exploiting a small pastime working system? Certain, why not.