tl;dr: We recently discovered a new and quietly released Windows kernel exploitation defence. Exploiting a kernel bug by setting the pointer to the SecurityDescriptor to NULL in the header of a process object running as SYSTEM won’t work from Windows 10 v1607 (Build 14393).  If you want to know why, keep reading.

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Note: This article was originally written by Kyriakos Economou (@kyREcon) for Nettitude labs.

Enjoy,
kyREcon