Parallels Desktop privilege escalation details

We discuss an 0day that was dropped on Parallels after 7 months of no fix from the vendor, as well as ZDI's troubles with responses to researchers and reproducing bugs. Also included are a bunch of filesystem issues, and an insanely technical linux kernel exploit chain.

Links and vulnerability summaries for this episode are available at: https://dayzerosec.com/podcast/274.html

[00:00:00] Introduction

[00:00:12] Training: Attacking Hypervisors

[00:01:03] Dropping a 0 day: Parallels Desktop Repack Root Privilege Escalation

[00:24:48] From Convenience to Contagion: The Half-Day Threat and Libarchive Vulnerabilities Lurking in Windows 11

[00:30:19] Exploiting LibreOffice [CVE-2024-12425, CVE-2024-12426]

[00:46:47] Patch-Gapping the Google Container-Optimized OS for $0

Podcast episodes are available on the usual podcast platforms:

-- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1484046063

-- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4NKCxk8aPEuEFuHsEQ9Tdt

-- Google Podcasts: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9hMTIxYTI0L3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz

-- Other audio platforms can be found at https://anchor.fm/dayzerosec

You can also join our discord: https://discord.gg/daTxTK9