Saint Collateral Damage, Who Opened the Console Without Asking

Patron of game consoles, homebrew, and Windows vulnerabilities that turn up where nobody expects them.

Life

In 2024 Emma Kirkpatrick, with Lander Brandt of Solstice, released a kernel exploit for Xbox One and Xbox Series built on CVE-2024-30088, a Windows kernel race condition patched in June. Launched from a scripting app, it gave full control of SystemOS, the virtual machine where apps run, without developer mode. It was no game jailbreak, and it was temperamental: when it failed, the console rebooted. The collateral damage, so to speak, of a PC patch.

Prayer

O Saint Collateral Damage, who crosses from PC to console like an unexpected guest, let our shared systems share their updates too. Amen.

How to celebrate

Celebrated by updating the console and playing a game, since someone else has already opened the kernel anyway.

A patch for the PC, a surprise in the living room.