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A Shadow of our Former Self

projectzero.google | blog | #sandbox-escape | #windows | #exploitation | #mitigation-bypass | #symbolic-links

Summary

An exploration of Windows symbolic link mitigations, presenting a technique introduced in Windows 8 that restores part of the symbolic link capability available to sandboxed processes.
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