The iPhone SMS Hack Explained

Posted by timothy on Monday August 10, 2009 @12:12AM from the en-percent dept.

GhostX9 writes "Tom's Hardware just interviewed Charlie Miller, the man behind the iPhone remote exploit hack and winner of Pwn2Own 2009. He explains the (now patched) bug in the iPhone which allowed him to remotely exploit the iPhone in detail, explaining how the string concatenation code was flawed. The most surprising thing was that the bug could be traced back to several previous generations of the iPhone OS (he stopped testing at version 2.2). He also talks about the failures of other devices, such as crashing HTC's Touch by sending a SMS with '%n' in the text."

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Jailbreak by SnakeEater251 · 2009-08-10 00:28 · Score: 5, Interesting

Makes you wonder how many iPhone owners who have jailbreaked (-broken?) their devices are still vulnerable to this hack. It isn't exactly fun to have to jailbreak every time an update gets released.

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