VM Escape Case Study: VirtualBox Bug Hunting and Exploitation

A practical case study in hunting and exploiting VM escape vulnerabilities in VirtualBox.

IDSECCONF 2021
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Talk delivered at IDSECCONF 2021 (Indonesia, December 2021). The presentation walks through a complete VM escape case study targeting Oracle VirtualBox: how target areas were selected, how bugs were discovered through code review and dynamic analysis, and how findings were chained into a working exploit.

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