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Protocol Prying: Vulnerability Research in AirDrop and Quick Share

21 pointsby logickkk1yesterday at 8:38 PM1 commentview on HN

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tptacekyesterday at 11:36 PM

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.