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This project hosts security advisories and their accompanying proof-of-concepts related to research conducted at Google which impact non-Google owned code.

31 mentions on Hacker News by 28 people: 14 stories, 17 comments · first 2020-08-10 · latest 2026-08-14

Mentions per year 31 mentions · busiest year 2023 (6)
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  1. …and it also works on newer CPUs than the one that the attack described in the OP targets. https://github.com/google/security-research/tree/master/pocs...
    comment by nspaced · 2026-08-14 · in Spaghettifying DRAM
  2. They still do! AMD Zen cores use RISC86, I documented it a little bit here: https://github.com/google/security-research/blob/master/pocs...
    comment by taviso · 2026-08-13 · in Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs
  3. You can denoise it: https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisor...
  4. …execution == root. Only thing that's new is some people started making websites for their LPEs. https://github.com/google/security-research/tree/master/pocs...
    comment by bjackman · 2026-05-08 · in Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE
  5. Can’t find the pdf, but it’s all related to the zentool stuff: https://github.com/google/security-research/blob/master/pocs... Tavis spells it out there pretty quickly: “ The simplest instructions (add, sub, mov, etc) are all implemented…
    comment by lolsowrong · 2026-03-29 · in Linux is an interpreter
  6. …be disabling user namespaces, which is probably a good idea if they are inundated with exploits: https://github.com/google/security-research/commit/7171625f5...
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    Oracle VM VirtualBox – VM Escape via VGA Device
    story by serhack_ · 2025-05-15 · 47 comments
  8. …notices something and changed up the microcode? Some clarification on that part would be nice. [1] https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisor...
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    Zentool – AMD Zen Microcode Manipulation Utility
    story by taviso · 2025-03-05 · 66 comments
  10. Hot off the presses: https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisor...
  11. ▲ 287
    AMD: Microcode Signature Verification Vulnerability
    story by todsacerdoti · 2025-02-03 · 105 comments
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    PlayStation Portal (Remote Play): Stack-buffer overflow in HEVC decoder
    story by skilled · 2024-06-14 · 2 comments
  13. …store duopoly, which is even less diverse. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38919389 [2] https://github.com/google/security-research/blob/master/v8ct... [3] https://bughunters.google.com/about/rules/5745167867576320/c...
    comment by throwitaway1123 · 2024-01-10 · in Things engineers believe about Web development
  14. …https://github.com/gsliepen/tinc/issues/218 [2]: https://github.com/slackhq/nebula/issues/637 [3]: https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisor...
    comment by nh2 · 2023-10-14 · in Would we still create Nebula today?
  15. You can run the PoC if you want to check: https://github.com/google/security-research/tree/master/pocs...
  16. …leaked customer secrets. [1] https://www.wiz.io/blog/azure-active-directory-bing-misconfi... [2] https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisor... [3] https://blog.lastpass.com/2023/03/security-incident-update-r... [4]…
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    Linux Kernel Spectre v2 SMT mitigations
    story by zx8080 · 2023-04-16 · 6 comments
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    Linux Kernel: Bypassing Spectre-BTI User Space Mitigations
    story by todsacerdoti · 2023-02-05 · 1 comment
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    Unsandboxed Password Manager
    story by mgerdts · 2023-01-21 · 1 comment
  20. ▲ 337
    VSCode remote code execution advisory
    story by dijit · 2022-12-07 · 178 comments
  21. ▲ 2
    Visual Studio Code: Remote Code Execution
    story by robin_reala · 2022-12-02 · 0 comments
  22. ▲ 1
    Remote code execution in Linux kernel Bluetooth stack. Affected since 2013
    story by lknik · 2022-11-30 · 0 comments
  23. ▲ 1
    Linux Kernel: UAF in Bluetooth L2CAP Handshake · Advisory
    story by transpute · 2022-11-30 · 0 comments
  24. ▲ 2
    Two remotely exploitable Linux kernel bugs fixed in the Bluetooth stack
    story by jiripospisil · 2022-11-29 · 0 comments
  25. …I didn't notice that when posting, or I would have made my comment a reply to that post [1]. [0] https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisor... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27842381
  26. To quickly identify affected and patched kernel versions see https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisor...
    comment by beermonster · 2021-07-15 · in CVE-2021-22555: Turning \x00\x00 into 10000$
  27. PoC: https://github.com/google/security-research/tree/master/pocs...
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    BleedingTooth: Linux Bluetooth Zero-Click Remote Code Execution
    story by todsacerdoti · 2020-10-15 · 0 comments
  29. …a beautiful recent example of in-band negotiation going wrong in an encryption at rest scheme. https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisor...
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    macOS is vulnerable to SpectreRSB/ret2spec
    story by mdriley · 2020-08-14 · 0 comments
  31. …>To the best of my knowledge, Tink is the only high-level library that gets this right. [1] https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisor... [2] https://github.com/google/tink [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23215652
    comment by cryptbe · 2020-08-10 · in Crypto Vulnerabilities in AWS S3 SDK