The most impressive exploit by far, and also a first for Pwn2Own, was a virtual machine escape through an Edge flaw by a security team from “360 Security.” The team leveraged a heap overflow bug in Edge, a type confusion in the Windows kernel, and an uninitialized buffer in VMware Workstation for a complete virtual machine escape.
The team hacked its way in via the Edge browser, through the guest Windows OS, through the VM, all the way to the host operating system. This impressive chained-exploit gained the 360 Security team $105,000.
I thought VMWare fixed the possibility of this from being possible? This is now the third time I've heard of VM escape on the VMWare platform.
These can easily be deployed in poor countries to print houses. The best part in my opinion is the lack of a need for any concrete. These machines can print houses with nothing but dirt and water. For those of you that want the machine to build bigger perfect homes complete with duct work, electrical, and wiring that might not sound great, but for homeless people in poverty stricken countries that's a win.
So this isn't something @travisdh1 would want to build and leave around?
Maybe in someone else's house. I haven't jumped on the automated assistant thing yet, I'm still quite leery of having something like that in the house.... yes, I know I carry one around in my pocket with the phone. Doesn't mean I use it.
Also doesn't mean you want yet another one reporting everything you say to the NSA.
@dafyre Are you sure you don't wear a tin foil hat as well? 😉
*quickly whips something shiney and metallic looking behind his back*
Who? Me. Never! *coughs to cover the sound of crumbled up tin foil landing in the trash can*
I'm not going to knock the article, cause I do agree, Linux Distros are constantly becoming better, and software developers are realizing they can still make a dime by developing their software so it works on Linux.
My issue is in the work-space and stupid black box appliances that require archaic software to operate that keeps me tethered to Windows.
If I could rip those solutions out, I'd be using CentOS as my daily office driver.
