By Eduard Kovacs on March 17, 2016
Pwn2Own 2016 contestants hacked Apple Safari, Adobe Flash Player and Google Chrome, and earned more than $280,000 on the first day of the competition taking place this week alongside the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, Canada.
The 360Vulcan Team is in the lead after the first day, earning a total of 25 Master of Pwn points and $132,500. The team obtained 13 points and $80,000 for a successful system-level code execution exploit targeting Adobe Flash Player. The exploit leveraged a type confusion bug in Flash and a use-after-free vulnerability in the Windows kernel.
The 360Vulcan Team earned 12 points and $52,500 for a system-level code execution exploit against Chrome. The attack leveraged four vulnerabilities, including two use-after-free issues in Flash, a use-after-free in the Windows kernel, and an out-of-bounds flaw in Chrome.
Organizers are offering $65,000 for a successful Chrome hack and an additional $20,000 for exploits that achieve root- or system-level code execution. However, 360Vulcan’s attempt to break Chrome is considered only partially successful as the Chrome vulnerability they exploited had been previously reported to Google.
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