Gray Hat Hacking: The Ethical Hacker's Handbook, Sixth Edition, 6th Edition

CHAPTER 24

Creating a Research Framework

In this chapter, we cover the following topics:

•   How to explore hypervisor functionality exposed to guests

•   Development of a unikernel in C to execute arbitrary guest code

•   Development of Python scripts that send custom code to the unikernel for testing and fuzzing purposes

This chapter starts with a brief discussion of the hypervisor attack surface and then covers the development of a framework that we’ll use for vulnerability research purposes. To follow along with the labs in this chapter, you’ll need an advanced level of knowledge of the C and Python languages.

The code from this chapter is available at the book’s GitHub repository:

A Dockerfile provides the development environment needed ...