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Yeah, you're wrong. It's bad, but it's absolutely not unprecedented. The first time a similar issue was discovered was by Prozect Zero: https://googleprojectze
by hannob 7y ago
Yeah, you're wrong.
It's bad, but it's absolutely not unprecedented. The first time a similar issue was discovered was by Prozect Zero:
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/04/over-air-exploiting-broadcoms-wi-fi_4.html https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/04/over-air-expl...
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/04/over-air-exploiting-broadcoms-wi-fi_11.html https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/04/over-air-expl...
It has some pretty damning facts, including that most mobile devices have some form of IOMMU in theory, but they don't use it.
Later there was the Broadpwn vulnerability, which was very similar. I believe there were more of them later.
- d2mw 7y agoGoogle can claim many firsts, but hopping from a baseband to an application processor most certainly isn't one of them. I'm sure you can find presentations from e.g. CCC much older than 2017
- krageon 7y agoI think I saw a presentation on this at the CCC in 2016, but it might have been another year.