MIT researchers uncover ‘unpatchable’ flaw in Apple M1 chips

Re:MIT researchers uncover ‘unpatchable’ flaw in Apple M1 chips by throwaway290 on Friday June 10, 2022 @03:33PM (#31698480)

Perhaps the kext with the overflow may not necessarily look malicious? It can serve as an actually useful kext and pass review.

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Re:MIT researchers uncover ‘unpatchable’ flaw in Apple M1 chips by aenis on Saturday June 11, 2022 @12:11AM (#31701850)

These days all kexts look malicious.

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Re:MIT researchers uncover ‘unpatchable’ flaw in Apple M1 chips by ntauthority on Saturday June 11, 2022 @04:45AM (#31702966)

Yeah. The bundled ones in the main OS image are the worst. Who the hell knows what nefarious acts lie behind IOPCIFamily.kext?!

/s, though not entirely, moving more stuff to unprivileged contexts would be nice

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Re:MIT researchers uncover ‘unpatchable’ flaw in Apple M1 chips by shp0ngle on Friday June 10, 2022 @11:52PM (#31701761)

yeah but if you can trick the user to do that, you can already trick him to do more

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