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Argus Monitor Local Denial-of-Service Vulnerability (CVE-2026-79417)

(1) An exposed IOCTL lets unprivileged users disable the x86 MONITOR & MWAIT instructions used by Hyper-V and other kernel components--triggering a HYPERVISOR\ERROR bugcheck.

(2) Reaching the IOCTL requires exploiting a TOCTOU bug arguably caused by poor documentation of the SeLocateProcessImageName function.

(3) Reimplementation of the driver's security through obscurity IOCTL encryption scheme: SHA-256 KDF-derived XOR keystream & CRC16 Checksum.

See full write-up, and Github for PoC.

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