Fascinating hack
Dec. 18th, 2021 12:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexxkayHere's a story about a recently-fixed exploit that could access iPhones without any user actions, via an *antique image-compression algorithm*.
"JBIG2 doesn't have scripting capabilities, but when combined with a vulnerability, it does have the ability to emulate circuits of arbitrary logic gates operating on arbitrary memory. So why not just use that to build your own computer architecture and script that!? That's exactly what this exploit does."
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-into-nso-zero-click.html
"JBIG2 doesn't have scripting capabilities, but when combined with a vulnerability, it does have the ability to emulate circuits of arbitrary logic gates operating on arbitrary memory. So why not just use that to build your own computer architecture and script that!? That's exactly what this exploit does."
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-into-nso-zero-click.html