Kernel buffer overflow exposes iPhone 11 Pro to radio based attacks

[Paulo Pinto]

On Thursday, 3 December 2020 at 07:28:09 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
> On Thursday, 3 December 2020 at 01:36:15 UTC, TheGag96 wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Kernel programming is not the same as application programming. 
> In kernel programming you do so many tricks and quirks that you 
> must operate outside what is considered safe by language 
> designers. Sure bounds checking helps as well as getting rid of 
> those stupid zero terminated strings but a kernel written in a 
> 100% safe language is just fantasy.
>
> [...]

F-Secure apparently is living in a phantasy world, 
https://www.f-secure.com/en/consulting/foundry/usb-armory