Embedded Problems

Embedded Problems
Federico Biancuzzi, 2007-06-11

Barnaby Jack developed a method for exploiting certain NULL pointer dereferences on the ARM and XScale architectures (and likely PowerPC). This method affects a lot of devices since most mobile phones and PDA are ARM based, and high-end routers often use the XScale architecture.

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Embedded Problems 2007-06-21
Jamie (1 replies)

Just to check; I think most of us who are writing userland code for Linux on ARM will not be affected because our code won't be running in SVC mode. Is that the case?...

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Re: Embedded Problems 2007-07-07
trox the jungletarian

Jamie - Priv Escalation from userland only complicates exploitation. An embedded device is a computer. All the same concepts that apply to hacking cpu's apply to embedded devices. ...

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Embedded Problems 2007-07-07
xort

I really wish you guys would stop talking about this :) ...

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