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Targeting the iOS Kernel - Reverse Engineering Mac OS X

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Attacking from User-Land: IOKit Drivers<br />

• IOKit drivers can also talk with user-space through <strong>the</strong>ir objects<br />

• all classes derived from IOUserClient can communicate with kernel<br />

• script can list all classes derived from IOUserClient<br />

• e.g. user-space baseband method calls will go through this method<br />

• AppleBasebandUserClient::externalMethod(unsigned int, IOExternalMethodArguments *,<br />

IOExternalMethodDispatch *, <strong>OS</strong>Object *, void *)<br />

Stefan Esser • <strong>Targeting</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>i<strong>OS</strong></strong> <strong>Kernel</strong> • April 2011 •<br />

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