Marco Gisbert, Hector (Recipient) & Ripoll, Ismael (Recipient)
Prize: National/international honour
Description
Google rewarded us for the Offset2lib weakness fix in the Linux kernel.
ASLR design had a weakness that allowed attackers to de-randomize (i.e. effectively bypass the ASLR) shared objects (libraries) by pivoting from application code.
This is another step to improve the security of Linux systems.