Curated security research, vulnerabilities, advisories and tools for practitioners.

#xnu

Security coverage tagged xnu.

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[CVE-2026-28825] An Apple Kernel Bug, Brought to You by Microsoft

research | 2026-04-22 00:00 | CVE-2026-28825 | calif.io | Original ↗ | .md | #vulnerability-research | #apple | #kernel

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A basic guide to iOS testing

blog | 2025-05-29 12:00 | bugcrowd.com | Original ↗ | .md | #mobile-security | #ios | #jailbreak

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The core of Apple is PPL: Breaking the XNU kernel's kernel

blog | 2020-07-31 00:00 | projectzero.google | Original ↗ | .md | #apple | #kernel | #xnu

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LLDBagility: practical macOS kernel debugging

research | 2019-06-17 22:00 | blog.quarkslab.com | Original ↗ | .md | #macos | #virtualbox | #kernel

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An overview of macOS kernel debugging

research | 2019-05-06 22:00 | blog.quarkslab.com | Original ↗ | .md | #reverse-engineering | #macos | #kernel

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Splitting atoms in XNU

blog | 2019-04-01 00:00 | projectzero.google | Original ↗ | .md | #kernel | #xnu | #project-zero

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[CVE-2019-6225] voucher_swap: Exploiting MIG reference counting in iOS 12

vulnerability | 2019-01-29 00:00 | CVE-2019-6225 | projectzero.google | Original ↗ | .md | #cve | #xnu | #project-zero

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blog | 2018-10-18 00:00 | projectzero.google | Original ↗ | .md | #ios | #kernel | #xnu

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[CVE-2017-2370] Exception-oriented exploitation on iOS

vulnerability | 2017-04-18 00:00 | CVE-2017-2370 | projectzero.google | Original ↗ | .md | #exploitation | #ios | #kernel

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task_t considered harmful

blog | 2016-10-25 00:00 | projectzero.google | Original ↗ | .md | #privilege-escalation | #sandbox-escape | #macos