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This indeed looks like a FUD statement, implying that they can have an infinite amount of potential vulnerabilities. Realistically though, writing parsers that
by Zarathust 5y ago
This indeed looks like a FUD statement, implying that they can have an infinite amount of potential vulnerabilities. Realistically though, writing parsers that do not yield control of your whole device is not that complex. The people exploiting iOS zero days can certainly do it.
- kevinmchugh 5y agoIt's not that hard but neither is shipping patched versions of ffmpeg. This company will have some catching up to do.
- da_big_ghey 5y agothe signal are capable for finding more exploit with more time. important piece is that exists now a reasonable doubt on data from the celebrite, so it are not so good for evedince.
- Karunamon 5y agoYou're not wrong at all, but if they're shipping these garbage ancient versions of ffmpeg, there are likely oodles of other bugs lurking around. And, if Cellebrite acts like most other companies who've had their awful security exposed, they will fix only this bug and leave everything else.
- spoonjim 5y agoBut it might be easier for Cellebrite to just stop exfiltrating data from Signal. Of course, other apps could discover similar vulnerabilities.
- chopin 5y agoThat's not enough. With file system permission, Signal could place files anywhere (like prepared gifs in the Pictures folder). I think this taints any phone having Signal installed.