Some exploitation methods and techniques are outdated and don't work anymore on newer kernels.
Pull requests are welcome.
2017: "New Reliable Android Kernel Root Exploitation Techniques" [slides]
2017: "Unleashing Use-Before-Initialization Vulnerabilities in the Linux Kernel Using Targeted Stack Spraying" [whitepaper]
2016: "Linux Kernel ROP - Ropping your way to # (Part 1)" by Vitaly Nikolenko [article]
2016: "Linux Kernel ROP - Ropping your way to # (Part 2)" by Vitaly Nikolenko [article]
2016, Ruxcon: "Exploiting COF Vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel" by Vitaly Nikolenko [slides]
2016: "Using userfaultfd" by Lizzie Dixon [article]
2016, DEF CON 24: "Direct Memory Attack the Kernel" by Ulf Frisk [video]
2016, MOSEC 2016: "Talk is cheap, show me the code" by Keen Lab [slides]
2015: "From Collision To Exploitation: Unleashing Use-After-Free Vulnerabilities in Linux Kernel" [whitepaper]
2015: "Linux Kernel Exploitation" by Patrick Biernat [slides]
2014: "Writing kernel exploits" by Keegan McAllister [slides]
2013: "Kernel stack overflows (basics)" by Essa Alkuwari [article]
2013, Black Hat USA: "Hacking like in the Movies: Visualizing Page Tables for Local Exploitation"
2012: "Understanding Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities" by Richard Carback [slides]
2012: "A Heap of Trouble: Breaking the Linux Kernel SLOB Allocator" by Dan Rosenberg [whitepaper]
2012: "Attacking hardened Linux systems with kernel JIT spraying" by Keegan McAllister [article]
2012: "A Guide to Kernel Exploitation: Attacking the Core" by Enrico Perla and Massimiliano Oldani [book]
2012: "The Linux kernel memory allocators from an exploitation perspective" by Patroklos Argyroudis [article]
2011: "Stackjacking Your Way to grsec/PaX Bypass" by Jon Oberheide [article]
2010: "Much ado about NULL: Exploiting a kernel NULL dereference" [article]
2010: "Exploiting Stack Overflows in the Linux Kernel" by Jon Oberheide [article]
2009, CanSecWest: "There's a party at ring0, and you're invited" by Tavis Ormandy and Julien Tinnes [slides]
2007: "Kernel-mode exploits primer" by Sylvester Keil and Clemens Kolbitsch [whitepaper]
2007, Phrack: "Attacking the Core : Kernel Exploiting Notes" [article]
2007: "The story of exploiting kmalloc() overflows" [article]
2005, CancSecWest: "Large memory management vulnerabilities" by Gael Delalleau [slides]
2005: "The story of exploiting kmalloc() overflows" [article]
2016: "Exploiting a Linux Kernel Infoleak to bypass Linux kASLR" [article]
2010: "Linux Kernel pktcdvd Memory Disclosure" by Jon Oberheide [article, CVE-2010-3437]
2009: "Linux Kernel x86-64 Register Leak" by Jon Oberheide [article, CVE-2009-2910]
2009: "Linux Kernel getname() Stack Memory Disclosures" by Jon Oberheide [article, CVE-2009-3001]
2017: "PWN2OWN 2017 Linux kernel privilege escalation analysis" [article, CVE-2017-7184]
2017: "Exploiting the Linux kernel via packet sockets" by Andrey Konovalov [article, CVE-2017-7308]
2017: "NDAY-2017-0105: Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in MSM Thermal Drive" by Zuk Avraham [article, CVE-2016-2411]
2017: "NDAY-2017-0102: Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in NVIDIA Video Driver" by Zuk Avraham [article, CVE-2016-2435]
2017: "CVE-2017-2636: exploit the race condition in the n_hdlc Linux kernel driver bypassing SMEP" by Alexander Popov [article, CVE-2017-2636]
2017: "CVE-2017-2636: local privilege escalation flaw in n_hdlc" by Alexander Popov [announcement, CVE-2017-2636]
2017: "CVE-2017-6074: DCCP double-free vulnerability (local root)" by Andrey Konovalov [announcement, CVE-2017-6074]
2016: "CVE-2016-8655 Linux af_packet.c race condition (local root)" by Philip Pettersson [announcement, CVE-2016-8655]
2016, Black Hat: "Rooting Every Android From Extension To Exploitation" by Di Shen and James Fang [slides, CVE-2015-0570, CVE-2016-0820, CVE-2016-2475, CVE-2016-8453]
2016: "Talk is Cheap, Show Me the Code" by James Fang, Di Shen and Wen Niu [slides, CVE-2015-1805]
2016: "CVE-2016-3873: Arbitrary Kernel Write in Nexus 9" by Sagi Kedmi [article, CVE-2016-3873]
2016, Project Zero: "Exploiting Recursion in the Linux Kernel" by Jann Horn [article, CVE-2016-1583]
2016: "ANALYSIS AND EXPLOITATION OF A LINUX KERNEL VULNERABILITY (CVE-2016-0728)" By Perception Point Research Team [article, CVE-2016-072]
2016: "CVE20160728 Exploit Code Explained" by Shilong Zhao [article, CVE-2016-072]
2016: "Notes about CVE-2016-7117" by Lizzie Dixon [article, CVE-2016-7117]
2016: "CVE-2016-2384: exploiting a double-free in the usb-midi linux kernel driver" by Andrey Konovalov [article, CVE-2016-2384]
2016: "CVE-2016-6187: Exploiting Linux kernel heap off-by-one" by Vitaly Nikolenko [article, CVE-2016-6187]
2016: "CVE-2014-2851 group_info UAF Exploitation" by Vitaly Nikolenko [article, CVE-2014-2851]
2016, HITB Ams: "Perf: From Profiling To Kernel Exploiting" by Wish Wu [slides, CVE-2016-0819]
2016, HITB Ams: "Perf: From Profiling To Kernel Exploiting" by Wish Wu [video, CVE-2016-0819]
2015: "Android linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerability and exploit (CVE-2014-4322)" by Gal Beniamini [article, CVE-2014-4322]
2015: "Exploiting "BadIRET" vulnerability" by Rafal Wojtczuk [article, CVE-2014-9322]
2015: "Follow-up on Exploiting "BadIRET" vulnerability (CVE-2014-9322)" by Adam Zabrocki [article, CVE-2014-9322]
2015, Black Hat: "Ah! Universal Android Rooting Is Back" by Wen Xu [whitepaper, CVE-2015-3636]
2015, Black Hat: "Ah! Universal Android Rooting Is Back" by Wen Xu [slides, CVE-2015-3636]
2015, Black Hat: "Ah! Universal Android Rooting Is Back" by Wen Xu [video, CVE-2015-3636]
2015: "When is something overflowing" by Keen Team [slides]
2015, Project Zero: "Exploiting the DRAM rowhammer bug to gain kernel privileges" by Mark Seaborn and Thomas Dullien [article, rowhammer]
2014: "Exploiting CVE-2014-0196 a walk-through of the Linux pty race condition PoC" by Samuel Gross [article, CVE-2014-0196]
2014: "CVE-2014-4943 - PPPoL2TP DoS Analysis" by Vitaly Nikolenko [article, CVE-2014-4943]
2014: "CVE-2014-4014: Linux Kernel Local Privilege Escalation "exploitation"" by Vitaly Nikolenko [article, CVE-2014-4014]
2014: "CVE-2014-4699: Linux Kernel ptrace/sysret vulnerability analysis" by Vitaly Nikolenko [article, CVE-2014-4699]
2014: "How to exploit the x32 recvmmsg() kernel vulnerability CVE 2014-0038" by Samuel Gross [article, CVE-2014-0038]
2014: "Exploiting the Futex Bug and uncovering Towelroot" [article, CVE-2014-3153]
2014: "CVE-2014-3153 Exploit" by Joel Eriksson [article, CVE-2014-3153]
2013: "Privilege Escalation Kernel Exploit" by Julius Plenz [article, CVE-2013-1763]
2013: "A closer look at a recent privilege escalation bug in Linux (CVE-2013-2094)" by Joe Damato [article, CVE-2013-2094]
2012: "Linux Local Privilege Escalation via SUID /proc/pid/mem Write" by Jason Donenfeld [article, CVE-2012-0056]
2011, DEF CON 19: "Kernel Exploitation Via Uninitialized Stack" by Kees Cook [slides, CVE-2010-2963]
2011, DEF CON 19: "Kernel Exploitation Via Uninitialized Stack" by Kees Cook [video, CVE-2010-2963]
2010: "Some Notes on CVE-2010-3081 Exploitability" [article, CVE-2010-3081]
2010: "CVE-2010-4258: Turning Denial-of-service Into Privilege Escalation" by Nelson Elhage [article, CVE-2010-4258]
2010: "CVE-2007-4573: The Anatomy of a Kernel Exploit" by Nelson Elhage [article, CVE-2007-4573]
2010: "Linux Kernel CAN SLUB Overflow" by Jon Oberheide [article, CVE-2010-2959]
2010: "af_can linux kernel overflow" by Ben Hawkes [article, CVE-2010-2959]
2010: "linux compat vulns (part 1)" by Ben Hawkes [article, CVE-2010-3081]
2010: "linux compat vulns (part 2)" by Ben Hawkes [article, CVE-2010-3301]
2010: "CVE-2010-4258: Turning denial-of-service into privilege escalation" by Nelson Elhage [article, CVE-2010-4258]
2009: "Linux NULL pointer dereference due to incorrect proto_ops initializations (CVE-2009-2692)" [article, CVE-2009-2692]
2009: "Even when one byte matters" [article, CVE-2009-1046]
2009: "CVE-2008-0009/CVE-2008-0010: Linux kernel vmsplice(2) Privilege Escalation" [article, CVE-2008-0009, CVE-2008-0010]
2008: "vmsplice(): the making of a local root exploit" by Jonathan Corbet [article, CVE-2008-0600]
2004: "Linux kernel do_mremap VMA limit local privilege escalation vulnerability" [article, CVE-2004-0077]
2016: "CVE Publication: CVE 2016-8633" by Eyal Itkin [article, CVE-2016-8633]
2011, DEF CON 19: "Owned Over Amateur Radio: Remote Kernel Exploitation in 2011" [slides, CVE-2011-1493]
2011, DEF CON 19: "Owned Over Amateur Radio: Remote Kernel Exploitation in 2011" [video, CVE-2011-1493]
2009: "When a "potential D.o.S." means a one-shot remote kernel exploit: the SCTP story" [article, CVE-2009-0065]
2016: "Linux Kernel x86-64 bypass SMEP - KASLR - kptr_restric" [article]
2016, KIWICON: "Practical SMEP bypass techniques on Linux" by Vitaly Nikolenko [slides]
2016: "Micro architecture attacks on KASLR" by Anders Fogh" [article]
2016, Black Hat USA: "Breaking KASLR with Intel TSX" Yeongjin Jang, Sangho Lee and Taesoo Kim [slides]
2016, Black Hat USA: "Breaking KASLR with Intel TSX" Yeongjin Jang, Sangho Lee and Taesoo Kim [video]
2016: "Breaking KASLR with micro architecture" by Anders Fogh [article]
2015: "Effectively bypassing kptr_restrict on Android" by Gal Beniamini [article]
2014, Black Hat Europe: "ret2dir: Deconstructing Kernel Isolation" by Vasileios Kemerlis [video]
2013: "A Linux Memory Trick" by Dan Rosenberg [article]
2011: "SMEP: What is It, and How to Beat It on Linux" by Dan Rosenberg [article]
2009: "Bypassing Linux' NULL pointer dereference exploit prevention (mmap_min_addr)" [article]
2017: "KASLR is Dead: Long Live KASLR" [whitepaper]
2016: "Emerging Defense in Android Kernel" by James Fang [article]
2016: "Randomizing the Linux kernel heap freelists" by Thomas Garnier [article]
2015: "Protecting Commodity Operating Systems through Strong Kernel Isolation" by Vasileios Kemerlis [whitepaper]
2013: "KASLR: An Exercise in Cargo Cult Security" by Brad Spengler [article]
2012: "How do I mitigate against NULL pointer dereference vulnerabilities?" by RedHat [article]
2009, Phrack: "Linux Kernel Heap Tampering Detection" by Larry Highsmith [article]
2016, Linux Plumbers: "Syzkaller, Future Developement" by Dmitry Vyukov [slides]
2016: "Coverage-guided kernel fuzzing with syzkaller" [article]
2016: "Filesystem Fuzzing with American Fuzzy Lop" by Vegard Nossum and Quentin Casasnovas [slides]
2015, DEF CON 23: "Introduction to USB and Fuzzing" by Matt DuHarte [video]
https://github.com/kernelslacker/trinity
https://github.com/google/syzkaller
https://github.com/schumilo/vUSBf
http://web.eece.maine.edu/~vweaver/projects/perf_events/fuzzer/
https://github.com/nccgroup/TriforceLinuxSyscallFuzzer
https://github.com/oracle/kernel-fuzzing
https://github.com/rgbkrk/iknowthis
https://www.exploit-db.com/search/?action=search&description=linux+kernel
https://github.com/offensive-security/exploit-database/tree/master/platforms/linux/local
http://vulnfactory.org/exploits/
https://www.kernel-exploits.com/
https://github.com/dirtycow/dirtycow.github.io/wiki/PoCs
https://github.com/ScottyBauer/Android_Kernel_CVE_POCs
https://github.com/f47h3r/hackingteam_exploits
https://github.com/xairy/kernel-exploits
https://github.com/ScottyBauer/Android_Kernel_CVE_POCs
CSAW CTF 2010: writeup, source
CSAW CTF 2011: writeup, source
CSAW CTF 2013: writeup, source and exploit
CSAW CTF 2014: source and exploit
CSAW CTF 2015: writeup 1, writeup 2, source and exploit
Insomni’hack finals 2015: writeup, source and exploit
rwth2011 CTF (ps3game): writeup
PlaidCTF 2013 (Servr): writeup, source
0ctf2017: source and exploit
https://github.com/Fuzion24/AndroidKernelExploitationPlayground
https://github.com/ReverseLab/kernel-pwn-challenge
https://github.com/NoviceLive/research-rootkit
https://github.com/djrbliss/libplayground
pwnable.kr tasks (syscall, rootkit, softmmu, towelroot, kcrc, exynos)
https://github.com/jonoberheide/ksymhunter
https://github.com/jonoberheide/kstructhunter
https://github.com/ngalongc/AutoLocalPrivilegeEscalation
https://github.com/PenturaLabs/Linux_Exploit_Suggester
https://github.com/jondonas/linux-exploit-suggester-2
https://github.com/mzet-/linux-exploit-suggester
https://github.com/mncoppola/Linux-Kernel-CTF
https://crowell.github.io/blog/2014/11/24/hosting-a-local-kernel-ctf-challenge/