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		toxik on Dec 15, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploi... I mean, you’re not going to fuzz your way to bit twiddling together a small virtual computer inside of a compression stream.

moyix on Dec 15, 2021 | [–]

Of course – but you can definitely fuzz your way to the initial vulnerability. The VM stuff is done once you have that vulnerability and are writing the actual exploit, which is a manual process.

TechBro8615 on Dec 15, 2021 | [–]

The blog says the PDF parsing was based on xpdf which is open source.

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