Hacking 3D and Breaking Out of VMware Demo

We covered the "Hacking 3D and Breaking out of VMware" Blackhat 2009 talk in the previous video. In this one, we will have a look at a live demo of the hack by Piotr Bania.

According to his blog post: "Last couple of days i had a chance to play and research VMware a bit, of course among other things. I spent last few days researching the vulnerability Kostya presented sometime ago. I did the entire research from zero and basically just for fun (yeah some of us still do this kind of stuff for the lulz). Unlike Kostya's method I am able to exploit this vulnerability only by sending two specially crafted SVGA_CMD_RECT_COPY signals. This method should work on default VMware configurations with SVGA support. Following exploit was tested only on Windows XP SP3 with VMware Workstation 6.5.1 build 126130 (no DEP support). To be honest i spent more time coding the hacktro so make sure you will watch it :-) Greetings for all of the hidden demosceners." 

Please have a look at the talk video first, to understand the context of this video.

Vivek Ramachandran is a security evangelist and has been working in computer security related fields for the past 7 years. In 2007, Vivek spoke at world renowned conferences Defcon (WEP Cloaking Exposed) and Toorcon (The Caffe Latte Attack). The discovery of the Caffe Latte Attack was covered by CBS5 news, BBC online, Network World etc news agencies.In 2006, Vivek was announced as one of winners of the Microsoft Security Shootout contest held in India among 65,000 participants. He has also been a recipient of a Team Achievement at Cisco Systems for his work on 802.1x and Port Security modules on the Catalyst 6500 switches. Currently he spends all of his time maintaining Security- Freak.Net , SecurityTube.Net and is the co-founder of Axonize. Vivek, is a Bachelor in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.You can contact him at vivek[at]securitytube.net