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[CVE-2015-4481] Between a Rock and a Hard Link

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Summary

Hard links are legal inside Windows sandboxes, making them a useful exploitation primitive; the post weighs their pros and cons and demonstrates them in the real vulnerability CVE-2015-4481.
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CVE-2015-4481
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