On day three of the Pwn2Own 2017 hacking contest held in Vancouver on Friday, a guest at system Windows που ήταν εγκατεστημένο σε VMware Workstation managed to "escape" twice.
Η κινέζικη ομάδα της εταιρείας ασφαλείας Qihoo 360 ξεκίνησε αξιοποιώντας ευπάθειες στον Edge browser της Microsoft που της επέτρεψαν να “φύγει” από την εικονική μηχανή VMware, και να φτάσει στο κυρίως σύστημα. Η ομάδα από τη συγκεκριμένη attack managed to win a prize of $105.000.
The second escape from VMware Workstation was made by the Tencent Security team, which won $ 100.000 for presenting a vulnerability in Windows kernel use-after-free combined with a “Workstation infoleak and an uninitialized buffer in Workstation to go guest-to -host. ”
Both teams were able to escape virtual machines and were found to be the first and second respectively in the ranking of the competition.
In the previous days of Pwn2Own 2017, which we have described in an earlier publication, Flash, Windows Kernel, Microsoft Edge, MacOS Kernel, etc. were hacked (again). firefox and Safari, Apple's browser.
In October, Microsoft said it was aware of the four zero-day vulnerabilities in Edge, Office, and Internet Explorer.