{"id":43694,"date":"2021-11-02T15:14:02","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T15:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/32781\/Google-Just-Tripled-Its-Bounty-For-Linux-Kernel-Bugs.html"},"modified":"2021-11-02T15:14:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T15:14:02","slug":"google-just-tripled-its-bounty-for-linux-kernel-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/google-just-tripled-its-bounty-for-linux-kernel-bugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Just Tripled Its Bounty For Linux Kernel Bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/9eedd3470e60297fb3ecf81990aeecc33d06ec71\/2021\/11\/02\/8743055d-79ce-47a3-a7fd-2d829b9c76ad\/shutterstock-1024665187.jpg?width=770&amp;height=578&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=webp\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Google has kicked off a special three-month bug bounty targeting flaws in the Linux kernel with triple the rewards for security researchers.<\/p>\n<p>The new bounty, <a href=\"https:\/\/security.googleblog.com\/2021\/11\/trick-treat-paying-leets-and-sweets-for.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-component=\"externalLink\">announced this week<\/a>, looks to harden the Linux kernel in specific edge cases. It&#8217;s offering up to $31,337 (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-component=\"externalLink\">Leet<\/a>) to security researchers who can exploit privilege escalation in Google&#8217;s lab environment with a patched vulnerability; and $50,337 for anyone who can finds a previously undisclosed or zero-day flaw, or for discovering a new exploit technique.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"relatedContent alignRight\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\"> <span class=\"int\">ZDNet Recommends<\/span> <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;We are constantly investing in the security of the Linux Kernel because much of the internet, and Google \u2013 from the devices in our pockets, to the services running on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/kubernetes.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-component=\"externalLink\">Kubernetes<\/a>&nbsp;in the cloud \u2013 depend on the security of it,&#8221; said&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/security.googleblog.com\/2021\/11\/trick-treat-paying-leets-and-sweets-for.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-component=\"externalLink\">Eduardo Vela from the Google Bug Hunters Team<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/ransomware-its-a-golden-era-for-cyber-criminals-and-it-could-get-worse-before-it-gets-better\/\"><strong>Ransomware: It&#8217;s a &#8216;golden era&#8217; for cyber criminals &#8211; and it could get worse before it gets better<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Linux kernel \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/linus-torvalds-on-linuxs-30th-birthday\/\">hatched as a hobby by Linus Torvalds in Helsinki 30 years ago<\/a> \u2014 now powers most of the top websites and internet infrastructure, from AWS to Microsoft Azure, Google, Facebook and Wikipedia.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s base rewards for each publicly patched vulnerability is $31,337, capped at one exploit per vulnerability. However, the reward can go up to $50,337 if the bug was otherwise unpatched in the Linux kernel (a zero-day); or if the exploit uses a new attack or technique in Google&#8217;s view.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hope the new rewards will encourage the security community to explore new Kernel exploitation techniques to achieve privilege escalation and drive quicker fixes for these vulnerabilities,&#8221; Vela said.<\/p>\n<section class=\"sharethrough-top placeholder\"> <\/section>\n<p>He adds that &#8220;the easiest exploitation primitives are not available in our lab environment due to the hardening done on <a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/container-optimized-os\/docs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-component=\"externalLink\">Container-Optimized OS<\/a>.&#8221; This is a Chromium-based OS for Google Compute Engine virtual machines that&#8217;s built to run on Docker containers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, since this three month bounty complements Android&#8217;s VRP rewards, exploits that work on Android could also be eligible for up to <a href=\"https:\/\/bughunters.google.com\/about\/rules\/6171833274204160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-component=\"externalLink\">$250,000<\/a> (that&#8217;s in addition to this program).<\/p>\n<p>The Google environment has some specific requirements that were demonstrated by Google security engineer, Andy Nguyen, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/google-warns-of-severe-bleedingtooth-bluetooth-flaw-in-linux-kernel\/\">found the 15-year-old BleedingTooth bug (CVE-2021-22555) in Linux&#8217;s Bluetooth stack<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/cloud-security-in-2021-a-business-guide-to-essential-tools-and-best-practices\/\"><strong>Cloud security in 2021: A business guide to essential tools and best practices<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That bug was a heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability in Linux Netfilter that could bypass all modern security mitigations, achieve kernel code execution, and could break the Kubernetes pod isolation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/google.github.io\/kctf\/vrp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-component=\"externalLink\">kCTF (capture the flag) cluster<\/a> used for security competitions. Nguyen <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/google\/security-research\/blob\/master\/pocs\/linux\/cve-2021-22555\/writeup.md\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-component=\"externalLink\">details his work in a writeup on GitHub<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Vela recommends that participants also include a patch if they want extra cash via its Patch Reward Program.<\/p>\n<p>Given the nature of open-source software development, Google notes that it doesn&#8217;t want to receive details about unpatched vulnerabilities before they&#8217;ve been publicly disclosed and patched. Researchers need to provide exploit code and the algorithm used to calculate the identifier. 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