The Hunt for Red October - One Ping Too Many
06-11, 10:00–11:00 (America/New_York), Grand Salon

The windows networking stack has been the source of various vulnerabilities over the years, a few of which could lead to remote code execution. This talk will discuss the internals of windows networking, how to uncover its secrets through reverse engineering and will conclude with details of some recently patched vulnerabilities (including CVE-2023-23415 aka Ping of Death).

See also: Red October slides (2.6 MB)

Erik is a Principal Security Developer with Field Effect Software. With over 15 years experience in the computer security field he has found vulnerabilities across a wide range of software and operating systems including Windows, MacOS, iOS and Android.