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Pig in a Poke: Automatically Detecting and Exploiting Link Following...

Talkat USENIX Security '25 · 2025-08-13..08-15· [security]
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name:Hao Huang
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name:Zihan Lin
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name:Min Yang
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Prototype LinkZard automatically detects and exploits Windows link-following flaws using an exploration phase with IPC-driven inputs and file state fuzzing to infer constraints and an file operation primitive graph for subgraph matching. The authors reproduce 42 historical LFVulns, scan 120 closed-source programs, find 55 zero-days with 49 confirmed and patched and 15 CVEs, report a 19.48% detection recall and about 86.8% exploitation success rate.

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  1. 0:00Link following vulnerabilities
  2. 1:57Arbitrary file delete vulnerability
  3. 3:47Root causes and prevalence
  4. 5:59Challenges in detection
  5. 7:05Linkard system design
  6. 9:16File state fuzzing
  7. 10:22FOPG construction
  8. 11:25Performance and results
  9. 13:11Conclusion
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