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[flipacholas]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31678045

Super minor nitpick but ROP wasn’t used for the King Kong/SMC exploit. I would consider it a ROP exploit if multiple return-oriented gadgets were chained together to form a full exploit chain, but what happened here is the syscall handler was invoked with a malformed index causing a single jump to user-mode code with kernel-mode privileges. It’s not too dissimilar to calling an arbitrary function pointer.

[mirh]

There's also #104