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（1）kernel exploit

2014-USENIX：ret2dir: Rethinking Kernel Isolation
2015-CCS：From collision to exploitation_ Unleashing Use-After-Free vulnerabilities in Linux Kernel
2016-CCS：Prefetch Side-Channel Attacks - Bypassing SMAP and Kernel ASLR
2016-CCS：Breaking Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization with Intel TSX
2017-CCS：SemFuzz: Semantics-based Automatic Generation of Proof-of-Concept Exploits
2017-NDSS：Unleashing Use-Before-Initialization Vulnerabilities in the Linux Kernel Using Targeted Stack Spraying — 【note】
2018-USENIX：FUZE-Towards Facilitating Exploit Generation for Kernel Use-After-Free Vulnerabilities — 【note】【tool-FUZE】
2019-USENIX：KEPLER-Facilitating Control-flow Hijacking Primitive Evaluation for Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities — 【note】【tool-KEPLER】
2019-CCS：SLAKE-Facilitating Slab Manipulation for Exploiting Vulnerabilities in the Linux Kernel — 【note】【tool-SLAKE】
2020-USENIX：KOOBE: Towards Facilitating Exploit Generation of Kernel Out-Of-Bounds Write Vulnerabilities — 【note】【note2】【tool-KOOBE】
2020-CCS：A Systematic Study of Elastic Objects in Kernel Exploitation — 【note】【note2】【tool-ELOISE】
2020-WOOT：Exploiting Uses of Uninitialized Stack Variables in Linux Kernels to Leak Kernel Pointers
2021-USENIX：ExpRace: Exploiting Kernel Races through Raising Interrupts — 【note】
2021-CCS：Demons in the Shared Kernel: Abstract Resource Attacks Against OS-level Virtualization — 【note】
2022-USENIX：SyzScope: Revealing High-Risk Security Impacts of Fuzzer-Exposed Bugs in Linux kernel — 【toolSyzScope】
2022-USENIX：Playing for K(H)eaps: Understanding and Improving Linux Kernel Exploit Reliability — 【note】
2022-S&P：GREBE: Unveiling Exploitation Potential for Linux Kernel Bugs — 【note】【note2】【reproduce】【tool-GREBE】
2022-NDSS：Kasper: Scanning for Generalized Transient Execution Gadgets in the Linux Kernel — 【note】【tool-Kasper】
2022-CCS：DirtyCred: Escalating Privilege in Linux Kernel — 【note】
2023-USENIX：PSPRAY: Timing Side-Channel based Linux Kernel Heap Exploitation Technique — 【note】【note2】
2023-USENIX：AlphaEXP: An Expert System for Identifying Security-Sensitive Kernel Objects
2023-S&P：AEM: Facilitating Cross-Version Exploitability Assessment of Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities — 【note】
2023-S&P：When Top-down Meets Bottom-up: Detecting and Exploiting Use-After-Cleanup Bugs in Linux Kernel — 【note】【note2】
2024-NDSS: SyzBridge: Bridging the Gap in Exploitability Assessment of Linux Kernel Bugs in the Linux Ecosystem - 【tool-SyzBridge】
2024-NDSS: K-LEAK: Towards Automating the Generation of Multi-Step Infoleak Exploits against the Linux Kernel -【tool-K-LEAK】

（2）kernel vulerability detection

2012-OSDI：Improving integer security for systems with KINT
2014-Black Hat：QSEE TrustZone Kernel Integer Overflow
2014-USENIX：Static Analysis of Variability in System Software - The 90, 000 #ifdefs Issue
2014-OSDI：SKI：Exposing Kernel Concurrency Bugs through Systematic Schedule Exploration
2015-SOSP：Cross-checking semantic correctness: The case of finding file system bugs — 【tool-JUXTA】
2016-USENIX：UniSan-Proactive Kernel Memory Initialization to Eliminate Data Leakages — 【note】【tool-unisan】
2016-USENIX：APISan: Sanitizing API Usages through Semantic Cross-Checking — 【tool-apisan】
2017-EUROSYS：DangSan - Scalable Use-after-free Detection — 【tool-dangsan】
2017-USENIX-ATC：CAB-Fuzz：Practical Concolic Testing Techniques for {COTS} Operating Systems
2017-CCS：DIFUZE-Interface Aware Fuzzing for Kernel Drivers — 【note】【tool-difuze】
2017-USENIX：Digtool- A Virtualization-Based Framework for Detecting Kernel Vulnerabilities-usenix — 【note】【note2】【note3】【note4】
2017-USENIX：How Double-Fetch Situations turn into DoubleFetch — 【note】【tool】
2017-USENIX：DR. CHECKER- A Soundy Analysis for Linux Kernel Drivers — 【tool-dr_checker】
2017-USENIX：kAFL- Hardware-Assisted Feedback Fuzzing for OS Kernels — 【note】【tool-kAFL】
2018-S&P：DEADLINE-Precise and Scalable Detection of Double-Fetch Bugs in OS Kernels — 【note】【note2】【note3】【tool-DEADLINE】
2018-CCS：Check It Again- Detecting Lacking-Recheck Bugs in OS Kernels — 【note】【note2】【tool-LRSan】
2018-USENIX：MoonShine：Optimizing OS Fuzzer Seed Selection with Trace Distillation — 【note】【note2】【tool-moonshine】
2018-NDSS：K-Miner: Uncovering Memory Corruption in Linux — 【note】【note2】【tool-K-Miner】
2019-S&P：Razzer：Finding Kernel Race Bugs through Fuzzing — 【note】【note2】【note3】【tool-razzer】
2019-WOOT-Workshop：Unicorefuzz- On the Viability of Emulation for Kernelspace Fuzzing — 【tool-unicorefuzz】
2019-FSE：Detecting Concurrency Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities — 【tool-CONVUL】
2019-S&P：Fuzzing File Systems via Two-Dimensional Input Space Exploration — 【note】【note2】【tool-JANUS】
2019-USENIX：Detecting Missing-Check Bugs via Semantic- and Context-Aware Criticalness and Constraints Inferences — 【tool-CRIX】
2019-USENIX-ATC：Effective Static Analysis of Concurrency Use-After-Free Bugs in Linux Device Drivers — 【note】
2019-NDSS：PeriScope：An Effective Probing and Fuzzing Framework for the Hardware-OS Boundary — 【note】【tool-periscope】
2018-USENIX-ATC：DSAC: Effective Static Analysis of Sleep-in-Atomic-Context Bugs in Kernel Modules
2020-TOCS：Effective Detection of Sleep-in-atomic-context Bugs in the Linux Kernel
2020-NDSS：HFL: Hybrid Fuzzing on the Linux Kernel — 【note】【note2】【note3】
2020-S&P：Krace: Data Race Fuzzing for Kernel File Systems — 【note】
2020-USENIX：Agamotto: Accelerating Kernel Driver Fuzzing with Lightweight Virtual Machine Checkpoints — presentation
2020-USENIX：Muzz: Thread-aware Grey-box Fuzzing for Effective Bug Hunting in Multithreaded Programs — 【note】
2020-CCS：Exaggerated Error Handling Hurts! An In-Depth Study and Context-Aware Detection —【note】
2020-FSE：UBITect: A Precise and Scalable Method to Detect Use-Before-Initialization Bugs in Linux Kernel — 【note】
2020-LPC：KCSAN-Data-race detection in the Linux kernel
2021-NDSS：Detecting Kernel Memory Leaks in Specialized Modules With Ownership Reasoning — 【note】
2021-NDSS：KUBO: Precise and Scalable Detection of User-triggerable Undefined Behavior Bugs in OS Kernel — 【note】
2021-USENIX：Detecting Kernel Refcount Bugs with Two-Dimensional Consistency Checking — 【note】
2021-USENIX：Understanding and Detecting Disordered Error Handling with Precise Function Pairing — 【note】
2021-USENIX：An Analysis of Speculative Type Confusion Vulnerabilities in the Wild
2021-USENIX：Static Detection of Unsafe DMA Accesses in Device Drivers — 【note】
2021-CCS：Statically Discovering High-Order Taint Style Vulnerabilities in OS Kernels — 【note】【note2】
2021-CCS：Detecting Missed Security Operations Through Differential Checking of Object-based Similar Paths — 【note】
2021-SOSP：HEALER: Relation Learning Guided Kernel Fuzzing — 【tool-healer】【note】【note2】【note3】
2021-S&P：A Novel Dynamic Analysis Infrastructure to Instrument Untrusted Execution Flow Across User-Kernel Spaces
2022-NDSS：An In-depth Analysis of Duplicated Linux Kernel Bug Reports — 【note】
2022-NDSS：Progressive Scrutiny-Incremental Detection of UBI bugs in the Linux Kernel — 【note】
2022-NDSS：Semantic-Informed Driver Fuzzing Without Both the Hardware Devices and the Emulators — 【note】【note2】
2022-USENIX：LinKRID: Vetting Imbalance Reference Counting in Linux kernel with Symbolic Execution — 【note】【note2】
2022-USENIX：OS-Aware Vulnerability Prioritization via Differential Severity Analysis
2023-NDSS：No Grammar, No Problem: Towards Fuzzing the Linux Kernel without System-Call Descriptions
2023-USENIX：FirmSolo: Enabling dynamic analysis of binary Linux-based IoT kernel modules — 【note】
2023-USENIX：Mitigating Security Risks in Linux with KLAUS: A Method for Evaluating Patch Correctness
2023-USENIX：BoKASAN: Binary-only Kernel Address Sanitizer for Effective Kernel Fuzzing
2023-USENIX：ACTOR: Action-Guided Kernel Fuzzing
2023-USENIX：Uncontained: Uncovering Container Confusion in the Linux Kernel
2023-USENIX：DDRace: Finding Concurrency UAF Vulnerabilities in Linux Drivers with Directed Fuzzing
2023-S&P：SyzDescribe: Principled, Automated, Static Generation of Syscall Descriptions for Kernel Drivers — 【tool-SyzDescribe】
2023-S&P：Precise Detection of Kernel Data Races with Probabilistic Lockset Analysis
2023-S&P：SEGFUZZ: Segmentizing Thread Interleaving to Discover Kernel Concurrency Bugs through Fuzzing — 【tool-segfuzz】
2024-NDSS: MOCK: Optimizing Kernel Fuzzing Mutation with Context-aware Dependency - 【tool-mock】
2024-S&P: To Boldly Go Where No Fuzzer Has Gone Before: Finding Bugs in Linux' Wireless Stacks through VirtIO Devices - 【tool-Virtfuzz】
2024-S&P: SyzGen++: Dependency Inference for Augmenting Kernel Driver Fuzzing 【tool-SyzGen++】

（3）kernel defense

2011-NDSS：Practical Protection of Kernel Integrity for Commodity OS from Untrusted Extensions
2011-NDSS：SigGraph - Brute Force Scanning of Kernel Data Structure Instances Using Graph-based Signatures
2011-NDSS：Efficient Monitoring of Untrusted Kernel-Mode Execution
2012-NDSS：Kruiser - Semi-synchronized Non-blocking Concurrent Kernel Heap Buffer Overflow Monitoring
2012-OSDI：Improving Integer Security for Systems with KINT
2012-S&P：Smashing the Gadgets - Hindering Return-Oriented Programming Using In-place Code Randomization
2012-USS：Enhanced Operating System Security Through Efficient and Fine-grained Address Space Randomization
2013-EUROSYS：Process firewalls - protecting processes during resource access
2013-NDSS：Attack Surface Metrics and Automated Compile-Time OS Kernel Tailoring
2013-S&P：Just-In-Time Code Reuse - On the Effectiveness of Fine-Grained Address Space Layout Randomization
2014-CCS：A Tale of Two Kernels - Towards Ending Kernel Hardening Wars with Split Kernel
2014-NDSS：ROPecker - A Generic and Practical Approach For Defending Against ROP Attacks
2014-OSDI：Jitk - A Trustworthy In-Kernel Interpreter Infrastructure
2014-S&P：KCoFI - Complete Control-Flow Integrity for Commodity Operating System Kernels
2014-S&P：Dancing with Giants - Wimpy Kernels for On-Demand Isolated I/O
2015-NDSS：Preventing Use-after-free with Dangling Pointers Nullification
2016-NDSS：Enforcing Kernel Security Invariants with Data Flow Integrity
2016-OSDI：Light-Weight Contexts - An OS Abstraction for Safety and Performance
2016-OSDI：EbbRT - A Framework for Building Per-Application Library Operating Systems
2017-EUROSYS：A Characterization of State Spill in Modern Operating Systems
2017-EUROSYS：kRˆX: Comprehensive Kernel Protection Against Just-In-Time Code Reuse 【slides】
2017-NDSS：PT-Rand - Practical Mitigation of Data-only Attacks against Page Tables
2017-S&P：NORAX - Enabling Execute-Only Memory for COTS Binaries on AArch64
2017-CCS：FreeGuard - A Faster Secure Heap Allocator
2017-USENIX：Lock-in-Pop - Securing Privileged Operating System Kernels by Keeping on the Beaten Path
2017-USENIX：Can’t Touch This: Software-only Mitigation against Rowhammer Attacks targeting Kernel Memory
2017-USENIX：Oscar: A Practical Page-Permissions-Based Scheme for Thwarting Dangling Pointers
2019-S&P：LBM - A Security Framework for Peripherals within the Linux Kernel
2019-S&P：SoK - Shining Light on Shadow Stacks
2019-S&P：SoK - Sanitizing for Security
2019-USENIX：PeX: A Permission Check Analysis Framework for Linux Kernel
2019-USENIX：ERIM: Secure, Efficient In-process Isolation with Protection Keys (MPK)
2019-USENIX：LXDs - Towards Isolation of Kernel Subsystems
2019-USENIX：SafeHidden: An Efficient and Secure Information Hiding Technique Using Re-randomization
2020-S&P：xMP: Selective Memory Protection for Kernel and User Space
2020-S&P：SEIMI: Efficient and Secure SMAP-Enabled Intra-process Memory Isolation — 【note】
2021-USENIX：Undo Workarounds for Kernel Bugs
2021-USENIX：SHARD: Fine-Grained Kernel Specialization with Context-Aware Hardening
2021-USENIX：Preventing Use-After-Free Attacks with Fast Forward Allocation
2022-NDSS：Preventing Kernel Hacks with HAKCs
2022-USENIX：Midas: Systematic Kernel TOCTTOU Protection
2023-S&P：EC: Embedded Systems Compartmentalization via Intra-Kernel Isolation
2023-S&P：uSwitch: Fast Kernel Context Isolation with Implicit Context Switches
2023-USENIX：PET: Prevent Discovered Errors from Being Triggered in the Linux Kernel
2023-USENIX：A Hybrid Alias Analysis and Its Application to Global Variable Protection in the Linux Kernel

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（4） Android

2020-USEINX：Automatic Hot Patch Generation for Android Kernels—自动给安卓打补丁【note】

3. CVE

4. Exploitation Techniques

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6. Debug & other techniques

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