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Arbitrary handle close vulnerabilities are an underexplored bug class in Windows. While these issues have appeared in multiple security cases, there has been little public research showing whether an attacker-controlled CloseHandle in a privileged process can be turned into a practical exploitation primitive, or whether the impact is mostly theoretical. This talk presents what is believed to be one of the first demonstrated end-to-end exploit chains for this class of vulnerability, using Desktop Window Manager as a case study.
The talk shows how a seemingly narrow primitive, closing an attacker-chosen handle inside DWM, can lead to an unexpected uninitialised memory use condition, a constrained two-byte out-of-bounds write, object corruption, and ultimately code execution in a privileged process.

Security researcher at Microsoft (MSRC Exploit Research Team)