Don’t panic yet. Though the hacker was able to run shellcode he says one will need a working iPhone exploit. “For now, this is more of a warning than anything else,” he says. The hacker, Charlie Miller or Safari Charlie for his previous work on Apple’s Safari browser. He assures us the current iPhone OS is pretty invulnerable.
When shellcode is enabled and successfully exploited it “would enable an attacker to run whatever code they wanted on the phone… ” Again he assures us, the iPhone exploit must be found first. “Mac OS X can run shellcode — in fact, many trojan horses exploit this ability — but this is an inherent part of the operating system. The real issue is exploits that may be able to launch this code on an iPhone, and we’re waiting for those to arise.” OK, got it.
[via arstechnica, cellular-news]
May 3rd, 2009 at 2:50 pm
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