Beating the kCTF PoW with AVX512IFMA for $51k
Published onWednesday, May 28, 2025AuthorsNameTimothy HerchenTwitterIntroductionIn May 2025, my Crusaders of Rust teammates William Liu (FizzBuzz101) and Savy Dicanosa (Syst3mFailure) discovered and developed an exploit of a use-after-free bug in Linux's packet scheduler. The bugfix patch contains additional details. William found this bug while fuzzing Linux for his master's thesis, which I will link here upon its publication. (Congratulations, William!)They wanted to submit the bug to Google's...
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