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Defeating magic by magic:Using ALPC security features to compromise RPC services

Advanced Local Procedure Call (ALPC) is an Inter Process Communication method in the Windows kernel. In the past few years, Windows ALPC and RPC vulnerabilities have emerged in an endless stream. These vulnerabilities are mainly based on TOCTOU file operations, memory corruption vulnerabilities in RPC services and ALPC syscalls in ntoskrnl. Windows kernel provides a variety of security measures to ensure that the data and context accepted by the ALPC and RPC servers are safe. We noticed the attack surface in the security mechanism of the ALPC kernel, and we found a security flaw in this mechanism (magic) and successfully obtained the system privilege from unauthorized users (defeating magic by magic).

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  • Originally Aired August 9, 2024
  • Runtime 45 minutes
  • Created August 25, 2024 by
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  • Modified August 25, 2024 by
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