Michael Coppola

CTF

  • CSAW CTF 2013 Kernel Exploitation Challenge

    Table of Contents Introduction Understanding the Code Tracing the Vulnerable Code Path Leveraging the Vulnerability Circumventing Additional Obstacles Achieving Local Privilege Escalation Exploit Proof of Concept Bonus Points Introduction CSAW CTF 2013 was last weekend, and this year I was lucky enough to be named a judge for the competition.  I decided to bring back…

  • MIT/LL CTF Writeup (Ticket Server)

    This past weekend, I led team ” ” in the 2012 MIT Lincoln Lab CTF where we captured the flag for being the most offensive team, specifically, performing the most unique compromises of team + service.  No, literally, we won the flag: One of the services we were tasked to install was a client-facing WordPress widget…