Leaking Windows Kernel Pointers

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Presented at InfoSecSouthWest 2016 by

As part of reversing win32k.sys to understand the User-Mode Callback mechanism, I found several kernel information leaks. As it turns out, there were several situations where the kernel was readily returning kernel pointers to user land. This talk will be a brief introduction into how user-mode callbacks operate, a description of the information leaks vulnerability and how prevalent they are, and then a detailed description of how to take advantage of CVE-2015-0094.