Protocol Prying: Vulnerability Research in AirDrop and Quick Share
arxiv.org30 pointsby logickkk11 comments
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This is neat research, but the findings in AirDrop aren't all that interesting. An assert trip and an NPE, and then a recursion bug in a hand-rolled XML parser that doesn't yield any attacker control over memory; basically, 3 annoying crashers.
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- This is neat research, but the findings in AirDrop aren't all that interesting. An assert trip and an NPE, and then a recursion bug in a hand-rolled XML parser that doesn't yield any attacker control over memory; basically, 3 annoying crashers.by tptacek
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