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cromka • yesterday at 6:56 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Actually, no, I now remember this was about iMessage specifically and how it isn't completely isolated/runs as system service or sth? Or about the renderer?

Which would make sense because these attacks seem to exploit the same weakness.


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odo1242 • yesterday at 9:02 PM

iMessage's attachment renderer is also sandboxed, actually. You might be talking about this vulnerability: https://projectzero.google/2021/12/a-deep-dive-into-nso-zero..., but the second half of the vulnerability exploit chain was finding a way out of the CoreGraphics (Apple's image rendering library) sandbox to hack the rest of the system.

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