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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)
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
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