Re:iMessage: Malformed Message Bricks iPhone
by rocqua on Monday July 08, 2019 @07:54AM
(#20381929)
Publishing the gist of the exploit, combined with access to diffs of the patch should be enough for people to reverse engineer the exploit.
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Where are they going to get access to the diffs of the patch? iOS is closed source.
Re:iMessage: Malformed Message Bricks iPhone
by inlined on Monday July 08, 2019 @11:03AM
(#20383313)
Reading (dis)assembly is a skill many in our profession are required to learn. It’s common in OS & security fields. Heck, when developing Windows on ARM we were told Friday that we’d come to work Monday with a mandatory “no source” debugging session where we had up to an hour to describe a hanged program’s intended behavior and why it was hanged. One of my colleagues also refused my symbols when I asked for help debugging a program. He was more comfortable in ASM than the latest C++